Lawyer X

A True Story

By: Jake Banks

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

An American lawyer in Paris jail...

A bright young Texas lawyer determined to make it on his own leaves the DA's office to pursue a career as a criminal defense attorney. Just months later, he finds himself at the center of an international ecstasy drug trafficking ring. As a charismatic negotiator, Lawyer X ignores danger and resurrects a deal gone bad. Caught red-handed in Paris, France, he lands in prison indefinitely.

Isolated from his culture and marked as l'Americain, he is focused on staying alive at a time when Anglo-Franco relations are at an all-time low. Facing years in French prison and multiple life terms in the United States, Lawyer X must protect his best friend's innocence and salvage his own dignity. His mentor, a legendary Dallas attorney, fights to keep him from becoming a casualty in the war on drugs.

©2015 Jake Banks (P)2018 Tantor

Awesome listen

If you can get past the first few chapters and get to the point where he's is getting arrested, you will be in for a ride.

FABULOUS BOOK

Very engaging after the first few chapters. He has quite the story to tell. Not sure how he endured the pristine time in France. Absolutely loved the ending! Made me LOL!

Not at all what I was expecting.

when I started this book it was not at all what I imagined. it took a huge left turn and I loved it! feel bad in a way.

AMAZING!

Just goes to show that anyone can be a complete idiot, with proper motivation. Greed.

I enjoyed the book, even though the outcome was predictable. I felt much sympathy for the guy and can relate to what happened to him. The thing I still can't wrap my head around though is WHY? Why would someone who went to law school. passed the bar, and had a successful career in his chosen profession gamble all of that to smuggle drugs into the country, ON HIS PERSON and not even be making that much money??? It just doesn't make any kind of sense. But it's a good story. a cautionary tale of what can happen when you are focused on the dollar above all else.

this book keeps your attention.

the story is well written and the narrator is easy to listen to. you can tell the true story

Great story but..

A little repetitive in the middle but great story. Almost couldn't believe it was a true story

Awesome listen!

Thanks for sharing your story. I was a young, successful businessman who became addicted to pain pills after two back surgeries. Never experimented with drugs at all but dr’s Prescribed me pills and before I knew it I was a junkie. From there I made very bad decisions that cost me my marriage and life at home with my children. I’m 6 1/2 years clean but it’s something you never get over. I don’t agree with our judicial system bc it’s big business. Again, thank for the great book!!

Suspenseful, energetic, driving

Jake Banks begins life after law school with a unique and interesting opportunity, especially in terms of the professional respect and potential income he can soon expect to enjoy. He's doing it his own way, and people like him for it. Then also he has an opportunity in the ecstasy pills market. He's very comfortable taking new risks as an ecstasy entrepreneur, expecting big payoffs that arrive quickly. And who are we to argue with a legal expert?

Then after a period of drama related to his risky behavior, he negotiates a prison world different than our own and many life problems ensue. He's always pushing the drama forward; there's never respite from the tension and action. From the beginning, he knows there's no world of absolute certainties, and his experience supports this postulate. He's honest to a fault with the reader, apparently understanding what's demanded of himself in this nobody-gets-hurt exchange with the anonymous reader.

He leaves us in a state of anticipation over what will happen next. We've come this far; why can't we continue? Readers have rights and that's why authors can't sleep until they begin writing their next book. We already know Banks' weaknesses, soft spots and when he feels such that he can't walk away. We need to know what he does subsequent to the action in his first book, waiting on that.

The narration was superb. S.P. Hopkins proficiently deploys many types of accents and voices, and he does this to make the meaning clearer and more precise. The story was in large part S.P. Hopkins, a great narrator.

Kept me interested to the end!

Very thrilling as well as informative. Learned a free things asking the way, and was especially satisfying since I reside in the Dallas area. Definitely earns a thumbs up!

Drug Dealing Lawyer's Pity Party

Narration: Well done. Clear and accents are credible.

Content: Disturbing how cavalierly author describes his incarceration for drug dealing, then being rescued via his well connected family attorneys and money. Why disturbing? Because although much is described about the author's discomfort and coping strategies, absolutely nothing is referenced about the harm caused by abuse of the drugs he smuggled. One can easily get the impression that Ecstasy is completely safe and it is an imposition to be busted for smuggling it. Really?