IMPACT [Kindle Edition]

Paul Levine (Author)

Book Description

IMPACT: NO. 1 BESTSELLING HARD-BOILED MYSTERY

A Jetliner Crashes in the Everglades.
A Billion-Dollar Lawsuit: Negligence or Terrorism?
The Defense: Kill Anyone, Even a Supreme Court Justice, to Win the Case.

Supreme Court Justice Sam Truitt takes the bench with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage. Lisa Fremont, his stunning and brilliant law clerk, has a dark secret in her past. If Lisa doesn't get Truitt's vote in multi-million dollar case involving a catastrophic airplane crash, she'll be killed. The Justice, too. IMPACT is a tale of seduction and betrayal, of passion and greed. Truitt, who has always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, join together to battle those who live by no law at all.

IMPACT, published in hardcover as "9 Scorpions," was the inspiration for "First Monday," the television drama starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna.

WHAT'S THE VERDICT ON IMPACT?

"A relentlessly entertaining summer read." - New York Daily News

"A breakout book, highly readable and fun." - USA Today

"A big brash blend of violence, sex, and the Supreme Court." - The Miami Herald

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author of 16 novels, Paul Levine has won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG" and co-created the Supreme Court drama "First Monday" starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna.  He is also the author of the bestselling "Solomon vs. Lord" series and the thrillers "Illegal" and "Paydirt."  His most recent novel is "Lassiter."  More information at paul-levine.com

FREE BONUS MATERIAL

Sneak preview of NIGHT VISION.  "Mystery writing at its very, very best." -Larry King, USA TODAY.

THE JAKE LASSITER SERIES

To Speak for the Dead
Night Vision
False Dawn
Mortal Sin
Riptide
Fool Me Twice
Flesh & Bones
Lassiter

THE SOLOMON vs. LORD SERIES

Solomon vs. Lord
The Deep Blue Alibi
Kill All the Lawyers
Habeas Porpoise

Product Details

• File Size: 577 KB
• Print Length: 414 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003XYFMQ2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,045 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting April 12, 2012

By Elaide A. Gahn

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I have read several of Paul Levine's books and was very surprised by his frequent use of gratuitous sex acts to define the character's morals and gross behaviors. Mr. Levine is an experienced a writer of fiction and should know better than to turn out a work that will surely "turn off" many of his followers. I find it hard to believe that every charactor uses the "F" word in nearly all conversations. Add that to the other profanities sprinkled liberally throughout and you have a book with a disgusting display of graphic sex. It is hard porn without the pictures, these acts remain in one's memory and imagination just as surely as a photo would. Perhaps he was trying out another method, but I found the vocabulary unnecessary to the story line. He's too accomplished to turn to such tricks. I have to wonder what audience he is pandering to...

4.0 out of 5 stars Impact offers an entertaining read. June 13, 2013

By Buzzy Van

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Paul Levine takes the reader on an interesting and exciting ride into the underbelly of under the radar financing and the desperate business owners that ignore the consequences of their greed.Levine is a deft story teller and Impact grabs you from the beginning and with interesting characters and takes you on an easy and fun ride.The bad guys do their best to make you dislike them and the overall story would make a great made for cable movie.

4.0 out of 5 stars a very good read June 4, 2013

By jt

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Exciting enough to keep wanting to get back to it. Characters were good to either love or hate or feel pity.

4.0 out of 5 stars made me want to go to bed early so I had Extream time to read! May 28, 2013

By Steve Whiteside

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This was a great book. The characters were east to follow and they always surprised me. I did not know what would happen next and that was the best part. I read for academics a lot so this is great fun to sit down and just loose myself in a book for no reason at all. I look forward to reading more from this series!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent May 4, 2013

By Phyllis Vetters

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I like Paul Levine's writing and really liked the Jake Lassiter series. This was the first one in the series that I've read, and enjoyed it so much I went ahead and bought the second in the series.

3.0 out of 5 stars Subjectively May 2, 2013

By Susan Kaye

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I felt that the plot lacked authenticity. Perhaps. Because it involved the Supreme Court, and I was unable to suspend belief that such things would never happen in real life. Others may find this quite plausible.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book April 15, 2013

By Richard A. lloyd

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It was very exciting and plot line could easily be true. Held my attention and flowed quikly. Suspense and intrigue galore.

2.0 out of 5 stars The WORST Levine's Written (at least under that name) April 13, 2013

By Richard L. Ross

Format:Kindle Edition

I've read about a dozen of his books, & Impact is such tripe is hard to believe it's from the same author. None of his typical sense of humor, a ridiculous plot & a breathless Harlequin romance style about a "ripped" Supreme Court Justice & a stripper with both a heart of gold AND a legal genius to boot.
Jeez--2 stars is probably an exaggeration.

More About the Author

PAUL LEVINE worked as a newspaper reporter, a law professor and a trial lawyer before becoming a full-time novelist. Obviously, he cannot hold a job. Paul claims that writing fiction comes naturally: he told whoppers for many years in his legal briefs. His books have been translated into 23 languages, none of which he can read.

He has won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for an Edgar, a Macavity, the International Thriller Writers Award, and the James Thurber Humor Prize. More info at www.paul-levine.com

What's new? "Lassiter" and "Last Chance Lassiter" are Paul's latest entries on Kindle. "To Speak for the Dead" continues its bestseller status more than 20 years after its hardcover publication.

Writing in USA TODAY, Larry King called the Lassiter series, "Mystery writing at its very, very best."

To Speak for the Dead
Night Vision
False Dawn
Mortal Sin
Riptide
Fool Me Twice
Flesh & Bones
Lassiter
Last Chance Lassiter

A Miami Dolphins linebacker turned hard-nosed lawyer, Lassiter has been described by Booklist as "one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction" and by The Miami Herald as having "a lot more charisma than Perry Mason ever did."

Also now available on Kindle: "Illegal," a thriller set in the world of human trafficking; "Impact," a legal thriller set at the Supreme Court; "Ballistic," in which a homegrown terrorist group takes over a missile silo in Wyoming; "Paydirt," in which a down-and-out bookie attempts to fix the Super Bowl; and "The Road to Hell," four original short stories.

Paul's other work includes the "Solomon and Lord" series, featuring mismatched Miami lawyers Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord:

Solomon vs. Lord
The Deep Blue Alibi
Kill All the Lawyers
Habeas Porpoise

"Fans of Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry will enjoy this humorous Florida crime romp," Publishers Weekly wrote of "Solomon vs. Lord."

Paul wrote 20 episodes of the TV series JAG, which gave him an opportunity to steer a nuclear submarine and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, all without endangering national security. He is a graduate of Penn State University where he majored in journalism and the University of Miami Law School where he majored in the swimming pool. He passed the Florida Bar exam in his first try in what he suspects was a computer glitch.

He was a trial lawyer with the mammoth international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he did not even pretend to know all his partners' names. He specialized in "complex litigation," cases so abstruse that even lawyers charging 500 bucks an hour didn't fully understand them. He tried hundreds of cases and handled appeals at every level, including the Supreme Court. Along the way, he filed expense accounts nearly as creative as his legal briefs.

Paul says he enjoys writing more than lawyering because he no longer keeps time sheets and gets to work in his underwear. He formerly lived in the hills of Southern California, which he claims are populated by rattlesnakes and coyotes, and those are just the Hollywood agents. Paul recently moved back to Miami, a place Joan Didion once called "a rich and wicked pastel boomtown." But to Paul, it's just "home sweet home."

More info at www.paul-levine.com
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