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Last to Die audiobook

  • By: James Grippando
  • Narrator: Ken Howard
  • Category: Fiction, Legal, Thrillers
  • Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: November 30, 2004
  • Language: English
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Last to Die Audiobook Summary

In an exciting new series that critics have called “John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum,” Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet.

Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he’s Jack’s newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack’s best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn’t so sure about Tatum.

A gorgeous young woman has been shot dead in her Mercedes on a Miami street. Tatum denies that he had anything to do with it, but he admits to Jack that he did meet with her in Theo’s bar, where she tried to hire him.

Sally Fenning was worth forty-eight million dollars when she died. Money had never made her happy, so she left it all to her enemies–left it for them to fight over, that is. She named six heirs in her will, but there’s a catch: No one gets a penny until all but one of the heirs are dead. It’s survival of the greediest.

Quickly the lawyers gear up for a bitter legal battle, but Jack braces himself for much worse. He alone knows that heir number six–Tatum Knight–is a professional killer. As the heirs begin to fall, Jack and his unforgettable sidekick, Theo, are in a race against time to discover if Tatum is behind all the killing. Or is someone even more frightening, more dangerous, the odds-on favorite to be the last to die?

From the harrowing first scene through its shocking climax, Last to Die delivers nonstop action and chilling suspense that fans around the world have come to expect from bestselling author James Grippando.

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Last to Die Audiobook Narrator

Ken Howard is the narrator of Last to Die audiobook that was written by James Grippando

Ken Howard received a Theatre World Award for his role as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and a Tony Award(r) for his performance in Child’s Play. He has starred in four television series and appeared in many full-length features and made-for-television films.

About the Author(s) of Last to Die

James Grippando is the author of Last to Die

Last to Die Full Details

Narrator Ken Howard
Length 5 hours 16 minutes
Author James Grippando
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date November 30, 2004
ISBN 9780060824068

Subjects

The publisher of the Last to Die is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Legal, Thrillers

Additional info

The publisher of the Last to Die is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780060824068.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Cindy

April 02, 2022

Author’s usual excellent storyline and writing. Narrated well and clearly. Clean of profanity although some sexual scenes are described.

Lynn

March 03, 2019

Good thriller. Had me guessing until the last.

Phillip

September 26, 2018

Love Jack Swyteck. Another great legal thriller.

Scott

November 03, 2014

An earlier Jack Swyteck novel, Last To Die has an interesting premise. Having lost her daughter to an intruder some years before Sally Fenning has remarried and then divorced a wealthy French businessman who, among other things, is involved in the cocoa business in the Ivory Coast using child slave labour to enhance his profits. After only 18 months married to him, Sally gets a sizeable divorce settlement which has now grown to $46 million. For reasons which don't become clear until late in the novel Sally decides to hire a hit man to kill her. And she is killed. Jack Swytek becomes involved when he is asked to represent Tatum, criminal brother of Theo whom he had rescued from death row some years before. Tatum informs Jack that he was approached by Sally about killing her but turned the job down.Then Jack and Tatum are invited to a lawyer's office re Sally's will. Sally has named six heirs, none of whom are family and one of whom is Tatum.The wrinkle is that only the last surviving of the six named will inherit the money. Then the games begin as there are attempts to scare some out of the running and the killing begins.There is an interesting twist at the very end which helps make sense of the whole shebang.Not Grippando's best novel but an interesting read nonetheless.

L

December 22, 2008

I love it when the authors of "murder & mayhen" mysteries include some social issues--it reduces my guilt for reading and thoroughly enjoying my "trashy novels." In this case, Grippando brings in child slavery in the chocolate industry and mentions the FL tomato pickers. Without overdoing it for those who just want a quick read, Grippando gives a solid view of life and hardship among some of Africa's most disadvantaged.Of course, there is the matter of the novel itself. Grippando has written another great mystery, with twists, turns, and (for me) a quite satisfying ending. Because Grippando write "real" characters,the relationship between Swyteck & Theo is great fun. As for Theo's brother, Tatum, well, wait read, and you decide. Swyteck is not so great with women, which is ok, since the relationship part of the story is about the buddies, in any event. Along with the buddies, you've got beautiful women, a reformed contract killer, and a wicked will. Enjoy!

Jenn

May 25, 2015

I like Jack. He's a pretty good lawyer. He knows how and when to bend the rules. He has ex-con friends and people who surround him and love him. I have to admit that I didn't figure this one out. I had no idea why Sally left all her millions for six people to fight over. And six people who were somewhat on the revolting end of the people spectrum. Highly enjoyable thriller with a number of twists I loved.

Carol

December 31, 2012

I love a good legal thriller with twists along the way, and this was it!

Pisces51

April 01, 2021

LAST TO DIE [2003] (Jack Swytek Book 3) By James GrippandoMy Review 4.5 Stars****I finished reading this third installment of the Jack Swytek books last night and enjoyed it so much I was sorry to see it end. This is one of the very early works having been published nearly a couple of decades ago. I finished the second installment [BEYOND SUSPICION] earlier this month and read this one practically back-to-back. I really can’t say which one was the best between the two.The book is listed under multiple genre designations including legal thriller, crime thriller, and murder thriller. The courtroom drama is relegated to “whisper court”, a term I had not heard before and applies to probate and wills. The story is at its heart another action-paced murder mystery more than a legal thriller, per se. The premise is fascinating and you know before you start that you are in for an entertaining and utterly enjoyable reading experience. I have tried to think what it is about Jack Swytek and this series that is so addictive, and it is like you are having genuine fun with LOL moments while you are simultaneously holding your breath in suspense for the next action scene or unsuspected turn or twist in the unfurling narrative. There is violence, murders, and assorted other criminal actions taking place in the story line but the author still manages to inject humor and render the whole book as sheer entertainment. Grippando demonstrates his skill in character development with a colorful cast of believable personalities that you immediately despise, like, love, or hate. The lead character of Jack Swytek is especially likeable for his strong sense of ethics, his loyalty to those people he cares about, and of course for his intuitive, intelligent approach to defending his clients and finding the truth. Best buddy Theo never ceases to entertain with his straight forward honest love of life and his trait of shooting from the hip no matter what happens. He and Jack make quite a team. There is the obligatory potential romantic interest and the entrance of a drop-dead gorgeous woman in the plot to boot. This is not to mention a profound subplot involving Theo and his brother Tatum. It is not my intention to write a synopsis of the plot line since the book description on Amazon and available Editorial Reviews manage to do a highly effective job of doing so. Simply put, this installment involves a beautiful woman named Sally Fenning. She is in the prime of her life, worth $64 million dollars, and yet she arranges to meet a reputed killer for hire to make a contract hit. The fascinating fact is that she names herself as the designated target, and she has willed her entire fortune to six (6) heirs, effectively disinheriting her only living relative, her sister Rene. The list of beneficiaries includes the people who had ruined her life. The common denominator among the list is that all of them were connected in some way to the unsolved murder of her daughter five years earlier. All that is, except for Theo’s brother Tatum who had met with Sally but refused the assignment. The terms of her will are ingenious in that the entire sum of her sizable estate goes to the last beneficiary standing, the only one of the six who is either left alive or alternately has not renounced his or her claim to the inheritance. It sounds like a tired premise, but in the talented Grippando’s hands the $64 million dollar game of survival is a thrill and a chill a minute. I would highly recommend this albeit dated early entry of the Swytek book series to anyone who hasn’t read it. I loved it. In the same vein, anyone picking up one of Grippando’s current books featuring Swytek owes it to themselves to read the series from the very beginning.

John

May 06, 2017

** spoiler alert ** Library Audible (To remind myself of the story) Fenning one night was stabbed by a stalker and her little girl was drowned in the bath. Whe divorced her husband then married a multi millionaire and after so much time was entitled to $46 million. She then hired a hit man to murder her who turned out to be Theo Knight's brother. He claimed not to have proceded with the contract. Theo Knight had along with his brother had been at a late night robbery and a person was murdered. Theo claimed innocent and a DNA sample years later proved his innocence of the murder, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck and by a fraction of time ws spared the death sentence.Well Fenningwas very clever indded, as she had guessed the likely sequence of events so to trap those who failed into a life / death situation dangled $46 million dollars in front of six people and told them the last one standing gets it all. Jack Swyteck ends up representing Theo's brother. The big pot of money comes from wealthy divorcee Sally Fenning, who leaves an enormous estate following her murder. Not only is her death suspicious, the terms of her will are insidiously cunning. None of the six heirs, all people Fenning despised, can collect until all but one has either died or renounced their share of the inheritance. The common denominator is that all were connected to the murder of Fenning's daughter five years earlier. There is Fenning's ex-husband, his divorce attorney, the prosecutor who failed to bring charges against any suspect, the newspaper reporter who wrote about the case and a mystery man who can't be immediately located. Swyteck's client, hitman Tatum Knight, is the only one not connected to the little girl's murder, though his tie to Fenning is odious in its own right: Fenning tried to hire him to kill her, but he steadfastly denies taking the job. As expected, someone starts knocking off heirs. Those who survive are brutally intimidated into dropping their claim on the estate. Swyteck, meanwhile, scrambles to find out who's behind it all while balancing a possible romance affair on the side that does not take off but instead he falls for Fenning's sister, an african charity worker, who takes over as executor and in the course of performing her duties discovers a later will thus counselling out the earlier one so the murderess group were knocking each other out for nothing. The sister gets to inheiret all . The brother Tatum Knight turns up to be in cohorts with the ex husband who murdered Fennings daughter and was stalking his own wife all because at a time before they married they split and she had sex with someone else who was the fathe of the daughter. Clever plot and all us lder ones all know how the scent of possible big money changes people to do the most vile things.

Zahyra

April 07, 2019

Ação e suspense que instigam à leituraMuito bem escrito, com diálogos, descrições e suspense na medida certa. A personagem central, Sally Fenning, tem substância e a narrativa, aos poucos, revela uma história cheia de marcas, amarguras e cicatrizes, mas também desistência.O grande herói da trama, o advogado criminal de defesa Jack Swyteck, dá o tom cômico na trama, ainda que todo o livro seja, de certa forma, uma história de ação e suspense um tanto sombria.A parceria dele - um cara simples, mas com grande senso de ética e muitas vezes atrapalhado - com a bela Renê rende momentos de cumplicidade e boas risadas.Quem vai ficar com a fortuna deixada por Sally?

Linda

January 10, 2018

Six people are in line to inherit forty eight million dollars, at least the last one living will inherit it all. This is the premise of the third Jack Swyteck book, and I am glad I didn't give up after reading the second book in this series. This time Jack is representing one of the heirs, an unsavory character, but the brother of Jack's friend, Theo. The story was clever and held my attention to the very end.

Steve

November 21, 2017

Unique premise, written with authorityBasically it’s a story about a will that leaves a lot of money to a lot of people. From there the story takes some unique twists and turns. Like the old cliche, it will leave you guessing until the end. James Grippando is an attorney who became an author. His knowledgeable authority on the law is evident throughout. This was the first of his books I read, and I will definitely try another.

Holly

August 08, 2017

A- I liked the Jack Swytek lawyer character. He got Theo out of death row 10 yrs ago and Theo became his right hand man. Now his thuggish brother was hired by a rich woman with a sorry history, to kill her. Then he and others were heirs to her 46 million dollar estate which was going to go to the "last to die." Some of the heirs die/are killed and in the end it's her ex husband and Theo's brother, a paid killer, who were in cahoots. Theo killed his brother.

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