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JAKE LASSITER IS BACK!

“To Speak for the Dead”
An E-Book with All Proceeds to Charity

“TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD” introduced  the world to Jake Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer with a hard bark and a tender heart.  If you’ve never met him, now is your chance.  If you’ve read all the Lassiter books, now is the time to revisit an old friend.

On the 20th anniversary of hardcover publication, I’ve made the courtroom thriller available as an e-book for the astonishing price of $2.99.  Yep, less than your double mocha latte, and far fewer calories.

Here’s the story.  Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder.  Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have the recipe for Miami’s trial of the century.

I’m donating all proceeds of the book to a cause that’s very special to me: the Four Diamonds Fund, which supports cancer treatment for kids at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital.  More about that below.

Over the next year, all seven Lassiter books will be available as e-books.  Even if you don’t own an e-reader, you can download the book to your laptop or desktop.  So, if you’d like a “breathlessly exciting” read (Cleveland Plain Dealer) or a “genuinely chilling” one (Washington Post), please give it a try.

CONQUERING CHILDREN’S CANCER

ALL BOOK PROCEEDS: “FOR THE KIDS”

A few years ago, one of my dearest friends, the godfather of my son, lost his daughter Margaux to Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare but vicious bone cancer. The survival rate for Ewing’s sarcoma that metastasises is a disheartening 10 per cent.

Seen from above, thousands of Penn State students devote time and money to conquering childhood cancer.

Ten per cent!

In this age of medical miracles, how can that be?

Which brings me to the Four Diamonds Fund. In 1972, a 14-year-old boy named Christopher Millard was an aspiring writer. Or rather, hewas already a writer. He’d penned a mythic tale about “Sir Millard and The Four Diamonds,” in the tradition of Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot. What are those Four Diamonds? Wisdom. Courage. Honesty. Strength. All are needed in our daily lives, especially in children’s battles with a dread disease.

You have probably figured out that Chris wrote the story while in the throes of cancer. The diamonds of his story were allegorical. The quest was for life itself. After a three-year battle, Chris died, but his memory lives in the name of the Fund established by his family.

Penn State students have contributed an astonishing $61 million to the Fund through their annual dance marathon. This year’s event raised $7.8 million alone. The motto of “Thon” is “For the kids.” And that, too, is the dedication of “To Speak for the Dead.”

Penn State students raise $7.8 MILLION at Thon to fight childhood cancer.

NIGHT VISION
Ahead of its time, “Night Vision” anticipated homicidal stalkers on the Internet. In this sequel to “To Speak for the Dead,” Jake Lassiter is appointed a special prosecutor when women on a sexually oriented chat site are targeted by a serial killer. Enlisting a brilliant female psychiatrist and assisted by retired coroner Doc Charlie Riggs, Lassiter wades into a maze of lies and corruption to uncover the murderer. Soon, Lassiter finds himself on the trail of a psychopath from the mean streets of Miami to an insane asylum in London and the very streets where Jack the Ripper once stalked his prey.

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REVERSAL
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously described his brethren on the Supreme Court as “nine scorpions in a bottle.”  Sam Truitt, the charismatic new Justice, is about to find out why.

Justice Truitt comes to the Supreme Court with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage.  Lisa Freemont, 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.  REVERSAL 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.

“REVERSAL” was the inspiration for “First Monday,” the television drama starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna

(Originally published in hardcover and paperback as 9 SCORPIONS)

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