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Zusatztext "Superb plotting! high suspense! compelling timely issues! and finely honed characters make this crime novel/international thriller a great read." Informationen zum Autor James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author with more than thirty books to his credit, including those in his acclaimed series featuring Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck, and is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He is also a trial lawyer and teaches law and literature at the University of Miami School of Law. He lives and writes in South Florida. Klappentext Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. For Patrick Lloyd, a young Wall Street advisor at the world's largest Swiss bank, Cushman's fall has unexpected and deadly repercussions. Lloyd's girlfriend, Lilly, is directly tied to billions of dollars in losses suffered by Cushman's most dangerous victims, a group of powerful investors whose identities and dirty finances are well hidden. What Lilly knows can get her and Patrick killed, and now they are on the run. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, not even each other, they must somehow uncover the truth before they become collateral damage. A gripping thriller ripped from the headlines, from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, Need You Now brilliantly imagines a terrifying, all-too-possible conspiracy that spreads from Wall Street deep into the halls of government. Zusammenfassung New York Times bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines! in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington! from the trading floors of the Stock Exchange to the deepest halls of government. Like Grippando’s recent bestsellers! Afraid of the Dark and Money to Burn —as well as Grippando classics like A King’s Ransom and Beyond Suspicion —the provocative Need You Now is a fast-paced thriller in which danger and conspiracy lie behind every plot and promise! and the future of the nation lies in the hands of an unlikely champion. “Grippando grips from the first page.” —Harlan Coben ...
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James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense. He was a trial lawyer for twelve years before the publication of his first novel, The Pardon, in 1994. He is now counsel at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and an adjunct professor of law and modern literature at the University of Miami School of Law. His novels are enjoyed world-wide in twenty-eight languages, and his novel Gone Again won the 2017 Harper Lee Prize in Legal Fiction. He lives in South Florida.
