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January 19, 2012
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PAYDIRT: Football Violence and a Family Torn Apart
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Paul lovingly clutches his Kindle as he plays frisbee with his hardcovers
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“Where do you get your ideas?”
It’s a question I’m frequently asked.
“I steal them,” I’ll answer.
Truth is, I often don’t know the source of my story ideas. But with PAYDIRT, I have a pretty strong notion. I’ve been a lifelong football fan. New York Giants as a boy. Penn State Nittany Lions as a college student and thereafter. Miami Dolphins when I lived in the city I like to call Gomorrah-by-the-Sea.
All that football got me to thinking. The National Football League has a problem with violence.
No, I’m not talking about those helmet-to-helmet, concussion-inducing collisions. I mean off-the-field violence against women, family members, even dogs. Not to mention other crimes involving drugs, gambling, even Ponzi schemes.
You’ve seen the headlines. So you know that a slew of former NFL players – from Hall of Famers O.J. Simpson and Lawrence Taylor – to anonymous benchwarmers, have run afoul of the law.
Currently, NFL players are in prison on charges of murder, robbery, conspiracy to kill a judge, intentionally driving a car into a group of teens, and a variety of drug charges, domestic abuse, and assaults.
That’s the backdrop behind PAYDIRT, my new Kindle caper. (That’s right. Through a deal with Amazon, the novel is only available as a Kindle eBook for $2.99 and a trade paperback priced in the $12 range.)
Here’s the setup:
Bobby Gallagher has it all...and loses it.
Now, to reclaim his life...
All he has to do – with the help of his brainiac 12-year-old son – is rig the Super Bowl, win a huge bet...and avoid getting killed.
That’s all I want to say about the story, which has several twists and turns before an explosive finale at a Super Bowl that Vince Lombardi could never have imagined.
Paul Levine
Sample or Purchase PAYDIRT here.
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PAYDIRT: New eBook and Paperback
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Bobby Gallagher had it all. A beautiful, savvy wife he adored, a whiz kid son who amazed him, and a high-profile, high-prestige job that his law school classmates would have sued their mothers to land. So what the hell was wrong?
That’s the opening paragraph of “Paydirt,” and things are about to get a whole lot worse for Bobby Gallagher.
Taking a stand on principle, Gallagher, general counsel of the Dallas Mustangs, “America’s Team,” loses his job, the people he loves, even his own self-respect. Now, he risks his life to get everything back. Assisted by his 12-year-old son, he takes on a seemingly impossible task: with the world watching, he must beat the mob at its own game... and fix the Super Bowl.
Sample or Purchase PAYDIRT here.
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Praise for Paul Levine
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"Mystery writing at its very, very best." - Larry King, USA TODAY
"Irreverent...genuinely clever...great fun." - New York Times Book Review
"Genuinely chilling." - Washington Post Book World
"Cracking good action-mystery." - Detroit Free Press
“Levine’s prose gets leaner, meaner, better with every book." – Miami Herald
"Just the remedy for those who can't get enough Spenser and miss Travis McGee terribly." - St. Petersburg Times
"Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave." - Chicago Tribune
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Jake Lassiter Backlist Available as eBooks
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The first seven Jake Lassiter novels, beginning with TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD through FLESH & BONES are now available as e-books on Amazon Kindle. For more information, click here.
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