This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel sinceThe Pardon(1994), and its just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is firstrate.BooklistA contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swytecks clienta pop music iconis the accused killer.Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that wont stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammywinning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, shes the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now exhusband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties.Preferring to see thieves profit from her music than let her exhusband pocket one more dime, Imani takes to social media and tells her millions of fans to go pirate and download her music illegally. Her hardball tactic leads to scorchedearth litigation, and now she needs Jacks help.The case takes a deadly turn when salacious allegations of infidelity send Imani and Shaky down a path of mutual assured destruction, each implicating the other in the unsolved murder of Imanis extramarital lover twelve years ago. Tyler McCormick died of asphyxiation, and his body was found in Biscayne Bay, chained to a piling with the words "goodbye girl" impressed on his chest. Despite their fierce denials, Imani and Shakey are both...

Binding: Paperback;354 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FF; Weight: 384 g; Dimensions: 203 x 135 x 23

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