Fool Me Twice

A dying man's final claim implicates a decorated war hero in a decades-old murder, and Jake Lassiter — former NFL linebacker turned Miami defense attorney — takes the case expecting a straightforward fraud trial and gets something far more dangerous instead. The investigation leads him from Miami's courts to an abandoned silver mine beneath the Aspen ski slopes, where the evidence that might clear him could also destroy everything. Paul Levine's sixth Jake Lassiter novel combines sharp courtroom comedy with genuine physical stakes.

Luke Daniels handles Lassiter's self-deprecating humor and the novel's breezy Miami energy with the ease of a narrator born to play a wisecracking attorney. His timing on the comedy is impeccable without undercutting the thriller's tension, and at just over ten hours the production moves efficiently through its multiple plot lines. Legal thriller fans who find most of the genre too solemn will find Lassiter's voice a welcome alternative.