Lassiter

A Novel

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Last seen in 1997's Flesh & Bones, Jake Lassiter is a hero unlike any other in the courtroom. Booklist called him "one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction." The former Miami Dolphin is still swimming with sharks in his latest, boldest novel of suspense yet.

Amy Larkin is in town, looking for her sister Krista, who vanished without a trace almost two decades earlier. She seeks out Lassiter because he's the last person to have seen her alive. Lassiter volunteers to investigate, and his search for Krista's fate will take him into the underworld of Miami's pornography industry, into the dangerous lives of his friends, and, of course, into the courtroom, where Lassiter's bareknuckle style makes him a formidable opponent.

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Great Story

This was an Audible recommendation and I'm very pleasantly surprised. Gritty courthouse politics and posh lives concealing corruption and sleaze, brilliant plot twists that keep you guessing, and a narrator who knows how to tell the story. Five stars!

Berkrot is not a good narrator

I like Jake Lasseter but Berkrot is a horrible narrator. Good story line , bad narrative

mixed feelings.

This is a well written story line with real twists and turns. The reader will be involved until the last word is read.
The plot and the characters are first class, but the subject matter was depressing for me.
The reality may be believable, I just hope it is pure fiction.

Not My Favorite Lassiter Book

Paul Levine definitely improved his writing as this series progressed. I really disliked all the sexual language and descriptions. They were just too explicit. It was just not necessary.

Good, but enjoyed Bum Luck much better

This one a little more raw than Bum Luck, Bum Luck was very very good

Not as entertaining.

The choice of reader was a poor one. After listening to a number of Lassiter stories, I had a vision of what Lassiter looked like. This reader did not make a reasonable vision. He also changed characters but not accent or tone and it was difficult to keep characters straight. In a series like Lassiter, the reader should be consistent. Hope the next one is better.

Getting Hooked

I am really getting hooked on Paul Levine's books. Peter Berkrot did a great job also. I like the down to earth not perfect lawyers with their own family
issues. I just love Grammy and Kip is a interesting boy to say the least.
M. Swingle

Barely worthwhile

Lassiter is the 4th Paul Levine audio book I have listened to. The other earned 4 stars. Lassiter is not that good.

Narrator detracts. Worst Lassiter book so far.

I’ve listened to 3 or 4 books in Paul Levine’s Lassiter series. I grew up in Miami so I enjoy all the local references. Up until I listened to this one I was thoroughly enjoying the series. The narrator of this one almost ruined it for me. The story itself was okay but as the 8th book in the series it didn’t really seem to follow the same path as those before it, leaving out characters, changing character evolution and not painting even Lassiter himself as the flawed but imminently likable ex-jock. Worst of the ones I’ve read so far. I may avoid any with this narrator (although in fairness to him it could be the direction he was given).

Bad language

The language was reallly bad and the sexual content very disturbing. I stopped reading but picked it up again because the reviews were ok. I'm sorry that I selected it and would not recommend it.