“Engaging…lively…colorful. The plot races with mounting tension.” – Miami Herald
“Just the remedy for those who can’t get enough Spenser and miss Travis McGee terribly.” – St. Petersburg Times
“‘Mortal Sin’ may not be better than a trip to Florida, but it’s the next best thing.” – Detroit Free Press
“Fun…the action is non-stop.” – Chicago Tribune
“They don’t call us sharks for our ability to swim.”
Jake Lassiter has an ethical dilemma that isn’t on the Bar exam.
He’s sleeping with Gina Florio and defending Gina’s husband Nicky in a wrongful death suit. Complicating the issue: Nicky is mob-connected and homicidal in his own right.
It all begins when environmentalist Peter Tupton freezes to death on Florio’s property on the hottest day of a sweltering Miami summer. Hired to defend Florio in a civil suit, Lassiter becomes convinced that Tupton’s death was no accident.
The trail of evidence takes Lassiter deep into the Everglades, where Florio has hatched a scheme to bring casino gambling to an Indian reservation. But that’s only a cover for a more sinister ploy that oozes corruption, blood, and money. One false move, and Jake will be gator bait.
It’s the toughest case yet for the ex-linebacker, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things. Hard-boiled and philosophical, the savvy lawyer lives by his own rules. “They don’t call us sharks for our ability to swim.” In a world of deceit, perversity, and mayhem, he risks body and soul for truth, justice and the Lassiter Way.