Escape Velocity
by Susan Wolfe
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Pub Date Oct 04 2016 | Archive Date Feb 28 2017
Description
When does the Con become the Artist?
Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father’s life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia’s little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it’s too late.
While she’s still living in her car, Georgia realizes that incompetence and self-dealing have a death grip on her new company. She decides to adapt her extensive con artist training—just once—to clean up the company. But success is seductive. Soon Georgia is an avid paralegal by day and a masterful con artist by night, using increasingly bold gambits designed to salvage Lumina Software. Then she steps into the shadow of a real crime and must decide: Will she risk her job, the roof over her sister’s head, and perhaps her very soul?
A Note From the Publisher
Susan Wolfe is a lawyer with a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Stanford University. After four years of practicing law full time, she bailed out and wrote the best-selling The Last Billable Hour, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She returned to law for another sixteen years, first as a criminal defense attorney and then as an in-house lawyer for Silicon Valley high-tech companies. Born and raised in San Bernardino, California, she now lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, Ralph DeVoe. Her new novel, Escape Velocity, will be published in October of 2016.
Visit the author’s website at www.authorsusanwolfe.com
Advance Praise
“Wow. Edgar winner Susan Wolfe is back big time--with a cleverly written, wickedly hilarious, and surprisingly touching financial thriller. Or is it? The marvelous Georgia Griffin will win you over, continually surprise you—and then sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Loved it.”
—Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark award winning author of SAY NO MORE
“Continuous action, sharp intrigue and memorable characters captivate in this coiling plot of a thriller. This one is definitely ahead of the pack.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times and #1 Best-selling author of The 14th Colony
"Susan Wolfe's new book is wryly funny, suspenseful and clever, and gives us an eye-opening look inside the high tech industry."
—Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Ill Will
“Instantly addictive and disconcertingly credible, Escape Velocity will send the unwary reader pell-mell through the mazy proceedings and gamesmanship of corporate Silicon Valley. If the adrenaline rush isn’t enough, then the endearing vigilantism (often based on perhaps a few too many moral shades of gray) will close the deal. There is a category of shrewd humor that weaves in and out of this novel, even while brilliant apercu shows up in every scene, in every tick and gesture. Ms. Wolfe is the keenest of observers and human nature has no hope of escaping her notice. There are enough moving parts in this novel to make a watchmaker flinch, but her deft control of plot is unwavering, and we are never in fear of losing our footing. I never knew how much I wanted to know about the legal and economic ins-and-outs of the tech industry until Susan Wolfe, uniquely positioned to illuminate both, decided to write this exhilarating novel.”
—Lynn Stegner, award-winning author of Undertow and Fata Morgana and
nominee for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her novel, Because a Fire Was in My Head, was
named Best Novel in the 2005 William Wisdom/William Faulkner Competition and a New
York Times Editors’ Choice.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780997211702 |
| PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Mukesh G, Reviewer
I liked every single thing about the book.. The way the character of Georgia was built up, her habit of reading and thinking in her Subaru, her utmost devotion to Ken, her uncanny abilities, her ability to meditate and focus, her hunger pangs, her habit of giving a humouros twist to any and all acronyms that she comes across, unflinching work ethic, love and responsibility towards Kate.. I must say that Susan has created a life image of Georgia Griffin in my mind..
I also liked Ken and Mr. Griffin and his nuggets of wisdom from the prison a lot..
The book is also extremely uncanny in its expose of a lot of what goes on in a corporate environment..
All in all, I would say that this was one of the best books that I have read this year.. Congratulations to Susan Wolfe for creating yet another bestseller (hopefully)
Louise W, Reviewer
Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley after rejecting her father, who is a con artist and is in jail. She's got a new job as a paralegal for Lumina Softwear. She needs to provide a safe place for her little sister Katie-Ann. Georgia is living in fear as she realises that incompetence and self-dealing have a death grip on her new company. Soon Georgia reverts to being a con artist to clean up the company.
What a fun read this is. Brilliant.
I would like to thank Net Galley, Steelkilt Press and the author Susan Wolfe for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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