The Pardon
Jack Swyteck: Book #1
- By: James Grippando
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Description
Fans of John Grisham's legal thrillers will love the suspenseful action and intriguing courtroom drama of James Grippando's best-sellers. In The Pardon, Grippando delivers a scorching tale of vengeance that stains the sultry streets of southern Florida. Miami defense attorney Jack Swytek has long rebelled against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. The two disagree on nearly everything, especially the death penalty. And when Harry allows one of Jack's clients-a man Jack believes is innocent-to die in the electric chair, their estrangement seems complete. But when they are faced with a psychopath's twisted game of vengeance, father and son have nowhere to turn but to each other. Like Under Cover of Darkness and Found Money, The Pardon showcases Grippando at his sizzling best. Narrator Ron McLarty voices all the dramatic tension, both in and out of the courtroom.
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Jack Swyteck Series

The Pardon - Abridged
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair.
But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places... Read more »
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The Pardon
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Fans of John Grisham's legal thrillers will love the suspenseful action and intriguing courtroom drama of James Grippando's best-sellers. In The Pardon, Grippando delivers a scorching tale of vengeance that stains the sultry streets of southern Florida. Miami defense attorney Jack Swytek has long rebelled against his father, Harry, now Florida's... Read more »
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Beyond Suspicion
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.
Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued.
At the trial,... Read more »
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Beyond Suspicion - Abridged
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Tom Wopat
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.
Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued.
At the trial,... Read more »
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Last to Die - Abridged
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Ken Howard
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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... Read more »
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When Darkness Falls
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In the latest novel from the bestselling author whom critics have called "the thriller writer to watch," lawyer Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which the life of his best friend hangs in the balance—and in which nothing is as it seems.
Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck isn't looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and... Read more »
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Last Call
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A kid from Miami's meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime. He was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit when lawyer Jack Swyteck proved him innocent. Now they are best friends. Theo is a semi-respectable and successful bar owner, but the past, with its risks and its terrors, has come knocking on his back door. An... Read more »
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Born to Run
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A] thrill-a-minute novel.”
—USA Today
Jack Swyteck is back in action in Born to Run—the eighth outing for the danger-prone Miami lawyer in author James Grippando’s New York Times bestselling series. In this timely and spellbinding thriller, Swyteck is embroiled in shady Washington D.C. politics when his own father is selected by the President... Read more »
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Afraid of the Dark
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Grippando has definitely reached a new level with this series entry. . . . One of his best.” —Booklist (starred review)
A young girl’s murder sets off a grisly cascade of crime, death, and intrigue—and sends criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck after a sinister group of terrorists on the verge of unleashing chaos across the globe. From New York... Read more »
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Blood Money
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author James Grippando delivers a powerful, nonstop thrill ride ripped from the headlines. Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back in his most frightening case yet, and this time the price of victory is measured in blood.
It is the most sensational murder trial since O. J. Simpson's. The nation is obsessed... Read more »
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Black Horizon
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In Black Horizon, a riveting and timely thriller drawn from tomorrow's headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck in an international case involving a devastating oil spill that pits him against his most villainous adversaries yet.
Three summers after the Deepwater... Read more »
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Gone Again
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
In this electrifying and fast-paced tale of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Cash Landing, Cane & Abe, and Black Horizon, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon in a case as twisty as it is... Read more »
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Most Dangerous Place
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense—based on shocking true-life events—from the New York Times bestselling author of Gone Again.
According to the FBI, the most dangerous... Read more »
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A Death in Live Oak
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, a riveting, timely story ripped from the headlines. Defense attorney Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged in Florida’s first racial terror lynching in more than a half century.
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the University of... Read more »
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The Girl in the Glass Box
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the stories behind the headlines from New York Times bestselling author... Read more »
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The Big Lie
By: James Grippando
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent—with each revelation more explosive than the next.
The country is reeling. For the sixth time in... Read more »
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Twenty
By: James Grippando
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties—Florida’s fifth mass shooting in as many years—in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize–winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.
It is the message every... Read more »