Books by James Grippando
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review 1: Another above average crime drama. A tough cop tracks down a killer and has to deal with dirty cops, an apathetic, unhelpful bureaucracy, bad luck and a killer who's good at keeping his tracks clean. What makes the story better than most is that the killers main target is someone...
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review 1: Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself in a lawsuit involving the widow of a Cuban man killed in an explosion of an oil rig off the coast of Cuba vs oil companies from several countries. As Jack gets into it, it looks like sabotage to him. The FBI and the US Justice Department...
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review 1: This book held my interest even though it is not my typical read interest. It is the story of a financial Ponzi scheme in which very powerful people lost their money. The book tells of their attempts to trace their money and opens up major investigations involving the CIA, FBI, W...
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review 1: I liked this book, but it made my head hurt trying to figure out the inner workings and shenanigans of Wall Street. I did come away with a much better understanding of how and why the housing/mortgage bubble burst and why we needed stiffer regulations for banks and investment fir...
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review 1: Police Sergeant Vince Paulo is holding the daughter of his best friend who is dying when she utters that her boyfriend Jamal had killed her. And explosion then burns the house down and blinds Vince. Three years later, Jack Swyteck is called in to save Jamal from a lifetime at Git...
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review 1: In this James Grippando novel, main character Jack Swyteck once again gets caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder - this time involving the highest office in the land (the presidency), the death of the vide-president, Russian and Sicilian mobs, and the involvement of...
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review 1: Author James Grippando has the happy knack of being able to fictionalize real events, dramatize them, and then incorporate them in a novel. Here he is using the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (that came to be known as The BP Oil Spill), changing the cons...
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review 1: This is the first book (well kind of) of Grippando's I've read.I'm not a fan of his writing.I was reading this and Got the Look at the same time and there are a lot of underlying similarities in his plots (which is fine, lots of authors do).Money to Burn has a lot of focus and de...
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review 1: This book was fantastic. I didn't know what to expect and just grabbed it off the shelf at the library. Never heard of the author or the book.First - it takes place in Massachusetts and Rhode and Island, so it's local to me. I liked that, of course. Even learned a few things abou...