“Wildly entertaining blend of raucous humor and high adventure.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A fast-paced thriller filled with action, humor, mystery and suspense. – Miami Herald
“Delicious.” – Los Angeles Times
“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.”
A grisly murder case takes Jake Lassiter from the beaches of Miami to the slopes of Aspen in the greatest challenge yet for the linebacker-turned-lawyer.
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.