Riptide

Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers, Book 5

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Review

"LEVINE'S FINEST WORK!"

"A tale involving drug smuggling and murder, windsurfing and murder, multi-million dollar thievery and murder. The action never stops." – Denver Rocky Mountain News

"A fast thrill ride with offbeat characters, humor, suspense and mayhem. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a pedal-to-the-metal ride." – Amazon 5-star review

"A lively and skilled caper." -- Los Angeles Times

"Sparkles as a mystery and a character study." – South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"One of the best mystery writers in the business today. The story fairly leaps with enthusiasm toward the finale. 'Riptide' is Paul Levine's finest work!" – Ocala (FL) Star Banner

"Levine handles his noir elements, especially his serpentine villains, with panache." – Publishers Weekly

Description

"A THRILLER AS FAST AS THE WIND"

Someone rips off Jake Lassiter's favorite client, then kills an old pal...

Lassiter tracks the killer from Miami to Bimini to Maui... And faces off with a famous female surfer and her lethal boyfriend.

"A thriller as fast as the wind, a bracing rush as breathtaking as hitting the Gulf waters on a chill December morning." – Tampa Tribune

©2010 Paul J. Levine. Originally published as Slashback © 1995 (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"A thriller as fast as the wind, a bracing rush as breathtaking as hitting the Gulf waters on a chill December morning." ( Tampa Tribune)

Always a good story

Excellent storytelling by narrator Luke Daniels. His wide variety of vocal characters is the best I've heard.. Luke brings the wonderful stories of Paul Levine to life. Always a entertaining and surprising.

Great Story!

Paul Levine never disappoints, another great story. One difference is that this story was not told in the first person like subsequent volumes. It was good for sure and funny, and a real page turner, but I missed that little connection. I buy the Audible versions and I have to give HUGE kudos to the very talented Luke Daniels, the guy is the best narrator ever! Highly recommend this excellent series!

I love the series!

This book has a little too much blatantly violence and bloody killings for my personal taste. Jake needs to find a pretty girl and settle down. Then he can solve the problems of the world and keep himself and his lady safe!!

Riptide

I enjoyed this book, adventures in the Hawaiian Islands filled with murder and corruption.
I would recommend this book.
Excellent narration.

Disappointing - not true to the ongoing character

I can’t see our character Jake demonstrating such character flaws. It’s disappointing when an author would create a story that makes me ashamed of our Jake. No matter how young and naive you are, a guy with a law degree and a strong sense of right and wrong wouldn’t struggle with anything but sorrow at seeing the truth.

The narrator's Spanish and Spanish-like accent were atrocious. Why couldn't Brilliance Audio have hired a Hispanic narrator?

suspense

I felt it was a bit wordy at times but it did hold my interest after I got into it, I was off to a rough start.

OK suspense thriller, but disappointing!!

Riptide has the same type of clever and funny lines and situations as other novels by Paul Levine, but most of the novel is lazy and lethargic. I expect better of Paul Levine. This is my 12th Paul Levine legal thriller in audio format. But Riptide is not really a legal thriller at all unless one defines legal mystery/thriller as any novel that has a lawyer as protagonist. There is a client, but there is no legal case. The client could have hired any person of the street to do the job; he did not need a lawyer.

Narration by Luke Daniels is outstanding,

THE WORLD OF SURFING

Everything anyone would ever want to know about surfing is in this story. Hawaii and Miami are thrown in for good measure.

Lassiter is No Travis MaGee

Ever since the great John D. MacDonald passed in 1986, I have been searching for a replacement the noble Travis Magee. Early on I thought that Paul Levine’s Jake Lassiter would come close but the Lassiter of book five is the same character in book one. Lassiter’s lack of evolution limits the plot as well as any expectation that Lassiter will form lasting relationships similar to Magee’s Meyer.