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Last Call

A Novel of Suspense (Jack Swyteck)

by James Grippando

Published 2007336 pagesISBN 978-0-0608-3116-5

Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life.Theo grew up on the streets of Miami's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent crime. Although his uncle Cy tried his best to raise him right, by the time he was a teenager, Theo was on death row for a murder he didn't commit. Jack was the lawyer who proved him innocent.Now a successful bar owner, Theo has turned things around. But he needs Jack's help again, this time more than ever.An escaped convict from the old neighborhood shows up at Theo's back door, asking for help. In return, he'll finger the man who murdered Theo's mother. But the answers aren't so simple, and soon Theo's own life is in danger.Jack and Theo must piece together a twenty-year-old conspiracy of greed and corruption that leads to the very top of Miami's elite, while revisiting a past that Theo has tried hard to forget. But Theo also has the opportunity to seek the revenge that has fueled him since the day he found his mother dead in the street on a hot Miami night.Last Call is a brilliant and bullet-fast thriller, complete with revelations that no reader will ever forget.

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Reading lengthA standard-length read336 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2007
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-0608-3116-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL9950795M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

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  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
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