Miami Herald readers heard that it’s “a fast-paced thriller filled with action, humor, mystery and suspense.”
Chicago Tribune readers heard that “Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave.”
“Take one part John Grisham, two parts Carl Hiaasen, throw in a dash of John D. MacDonald, and voila! You’ve got Jake Lassiter.”
– Tulsa Sun
“Wildly entertaining blend of raucous humor and high adventure.”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s the set-up…
Lassiter helps Blinky Baroso beat a fraud rap, then gets stiffed for his fee. Not only that, when an associate ends up dead, Lassiter is the prime suspect. If he doesn’t find the killer, he’ll face a murder charge.
The trail leads to a search for buried treasure under the Colorado ski slopes. With his 12-year-old delinquent nephew in tow, Lassiter encounters the twin dangers of a mysterious ex-girlfriend and a rancher who’s handy with a nail gun and will kill anyone between him and a priceless artifact of the Old West. Is the “Silver Queen” statue real? Or, like the “Maltese Falcon,” is it merely the stuff dreams are made of?
The characters converge in an explosive finale in an abandoned silver mine where Lassiter confronts his checkered past and his precarious future.
“Hey, Lassiter. You ever hear the expression ‘Fool me once, shame on you?’”
“Sure. ‘Fool me twice, shame on me.’”
“Nope. Fool me twice, you’re dead.”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A fast-paced thriller filled with action, humor, mystery and suspense.
– The Miami Herald
“Delicious.”
– Los Angeles Times
Paul with author daughter Wendy Sachs |
One of the great pleasures of our citizenship in Kindle Nation has involved following one-of-a-kind hero Jake Lassiter through thick and thin in one great yarn after another.
Now, in FOOL ME TWICE, the search for buried treasure takes Jake to Colorado and an old silver mine located under the ski slopes in Aspen. Oh, and there’s the little matter of Jake being a suspect in a murder case back in Miami. Those two stories come together nicely. We meet a rancher who’s obsessed with finding a priceless artifact from the Old West…a guy who’s a little too handy with a nail gun. There’s a femme fatale from Jake’s past….something the author uses perhaps a bit too much, and a hilarious client named Blinky Baroso. (He blinks whenever he tells a lie, and usually his eyes are flapping like Venetian blinds).
One of Levine’s best. A scary ending. Highly recommended.
-Frank Kingman
“Irreverent…genuinely clever…great fun.”
“Just the remedy for those who can’t get enough Spenser and miss Travis McGee terribly.”
“Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave.”
“Genuinely chilling.”
“Take one part John Grisham, two parts Carl Hiaasen, throw in a dash of John D. MacDonald, and voila! You’ve got Jake Lassiter.”
“Lassiter is well on his way to becoming a star in the field of detective fiction.”
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