"Thrilling Page Turner Read with Thrilling Ending"

By: James Grippando

Genres: Fiction

Posted: March 9, 2013

Sydney Bennett is one of the most despised women in the world. After a lengthy trial the cocktail waitress is found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter. No one is more surprised at the verdict than Sydney's attorney, Jack Swyteck.

On the night of Sydney's release from prison, hundreds of angry demonstrators are waiting for her at the prison entrance, but the defense team and the warden get the prisoner out the back way unnoticed. Tragedy strikes when a woman that could pass for Sydney's twin is attacked by the protesters and she now lays in a coma from the injuries she sustained. No one, including Jack, knows where Sydney is. Jack had delivered Sydney, via ambulance, to a private air strip where she ran into the waiting arms of an unknown man. A cable news show keeps the animosity of the citizens boiling with their unfounded rumors that Sydney has made a book-deal for seven-million dollars of "blood money".

BLOOD MONEY is Grippando and his alter-ego Jack Swyteck at their most dynamic. This is one tautly paced thriller with unforgettable three dimensional characters -- some at their very best, and some at their vilest. The relationship between Jack and his grandmother is fabulous, as is the love and devotion between the attorney and his FBI fiancée, Andie. The twists and turns this tale takes keeps the reader swiftly turning the pages, racing to an ending that is totally unexpected.

Book Summary

"A nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. It's the most watched trial since O.J. Simpson, and millions of "TV Jurors" have convicted Jack's client in the arena of public opinion. The shocking verdict--not guilty--creates an immediate uproar, from angry phone calls to outright threats. Media-fed rumors of "blood money" in the form of seven-figure book and movie deals put Sydney and everyone around her at risk. On the night of Sydney's release, the angry mob outside the jail demands its own justice. A young woman ends up dead in the frenzy, her only crime being that she bears a striking resemblance to Sydney Bennett. The media blame Jack and his defense team, but to Jack's surprise, the victim's parents reach out to him. With Jack's help, they believe they can prove that their daughter's death wasn't just a random mob tragedy. Something bigger and more organized is at work, and what happened outside the jail that night is a symptom of the evil that infected the show-stopping trial and media-spun phenomenon of Sydney Bennett"--

Blood Money by James Grippando

Blood Money

by: James Grippando

Harper
January 1, 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Featuring:
352 pages
ISBN: 0062109847
EAN: 9780062109842
Kindle: B008CH1XFO
Hardcover / e-Book

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