Gone Again: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Written by James Grippando
Narrated by Jonathan Davis
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About this audiobook
Winner of the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
In this electrifying and fast-paced tale of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Cash Landing, Cane & Abe, and Black Horizon, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon in a case as twisty as it is shocking.
Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi’s clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle’s execution, Sashi’s mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news: “Sashi called me.”
The police dismiss the call as a cruel hoax. The State Attorney refuses to consider the new evidence, insisting the case is closed. The governor has already signed the death warrant. An innocent man may be executed and time is running out—unless his lawyers can locate Sashi.
A man of principle who believes in justice, Jack jumps into the investigation. But the deeper he digs the more he discovers that nothing is what it appears to be. Not the victim. Not her alleged killer. And definitely not Sashi’s parents, whose grief ruptured their marriage, each openly blaming the other for what happened to their daughter.
As their gut-wrenching and hopelessly conflicting version of events unfolds in a Miami courtroom, it becomes clear there is something even more difficult to find than a long-missing girl . . .
The truth.
James Grippando
James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author with more than thirty books to his credit, including those in his acclaimed series featuring Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck, and the winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He is also a trial lawyer and teaches law and literature at the University of Miami School of Law. He lives and writes in South Florida.
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Reviews for Gone Again
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This audiobook doesn’t play properly. Have reported this twice and all I get is a dismissive email saying “it played fine at our end”.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Sashi Burgette vanished on her way to school; the night after her disappearance, a piece of her clothing is found in the truck of an ex-convict, and Dylan Reeves winds up on death row, convicted of her murder despite the fact that the location of her body remains undiscovered. Days before Dylan’s scheduled execution, Sashi’s mother tells Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck that Sashi called her and could he please find her before Dylan is executed for a crime he did not commit?With the police dismissing the call as a cruel hoax and no one willing to investigate or to halt the execution, Jack sets out to find the missing girl and save the innocent man from execution. But the more he uncovers, the more convoluted the case becomes; conflicting stories and testimonies serve only to throw the case into confusion. And soon Jack discovers that, while searching for the long-missing girl, he must also search for the truth.The fast pace, twisted plot, and well-developed characters create a story that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the final, unexpected twist they simply won’t see coming.Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Swyteck is back working out of the Freedom Institute to help them out financially by paying rent. He just happens to be the only one there when Debra Burgette shows up. Dylan Reeves is about to be put to death for raping and killing her daughter. The unusual thing about this is that she believes her daughter is still alive and they will be executing an innocent man. As Jack and the staff of the Freedom Institute investigate the case, they believe that he is innocent of the murder and take on the case. Meanwhile, Jack's wife Andie is in her 28th week of a pregnancy and is experiencing problems similar to what Jack's mother died of in child birth. As Jack and the Freedom Institute staff get more involved in the case of Reeves, everything becomes more and more complicated. Is Sashi alive? Who is calling Debra every year on Sashi's birthday? What is Gavin Burgette's involvement in all this? What is re-homing and were the Burgette's investigating and considering this? There are a lot of questions, but will the answers be found in time to save Dylan Reeves? Another great Swyteck story by James Grippando.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did Sashi Burgette get "rehomed" or was she abducted? This book kept my interest. This is the first Grippando novel I've read but I'll be looking for others.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 Jack Swyteck is a good guy, he is a good lawyer and a good man. For many years he worked for the Freedom Institute, getting inmates off death row, before branching off on his own. Now successful in his own practice, he returns to the Institute, not to work for them again, but to rent a space to provide the Institute with some much needed money. At least that's the plan, but he is barely in the door when he becomes part of a case involving a missing seventeen year old adopted girl. A solid series, the author was a trial lawyer for many years and this case has so many twists one turns. Learned things I had never heard of such as a psychological condition called RAD and rehomimg. Who knew? Neither one sounds like something one would want to deal with. Scary stuff there. Anyway this can be read alone, their is some personal stuff going on but it is mostly about this twisted, crazy case where it seems no one is telling all they know.