“Wickedly hilarious.” — Hank Phillippi Ryan, award-winning author of Say No More
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?
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Praise for Escape Velocity
Publishers Weekly, starred review:
“Wolfe made her debut . . . with The Last Billable Hour, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Her accomplished, amusing follow-up, a thriller set in California’s Silicon Valley, stars paralegal Georgia Griffin. . . . Wolfe, a lawyer who knows the high-tech world, makes a very welcome return.”
“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
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
“A financial and legal thriller with rich character development that creates an absolutely compelling stay-up-all-night read.”
— Alice LaPlante,
award-winning author of Turn of Mind
“Georgia is a gem of a main character–an employee not afraid to use her “cons” to give the incompetent and malevolent Lumina employees their just deserts. . . . Wolfe’s legal expertise, good sense of humor and writing chops make Escape Velocity a real winner.”
— Deadly Pleasures, Rating A-
“Not only highly entertaining, but also insightful and informative about Silicon Valley’s high tech industry, whose principles are not always what they claim.”
— Barbara Babcock,
Professor Emerita of Stanford Law School, and author of
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz and Recollections
“Instantly addictive and disconcertingly credible, Escape Velocity will send the unwary reader pell-mell through the mazy proceedings and gamesmanship of corporate Silicon Valley. This exhilarating novel is shot through with shrewd humor and keen observation.”
— Lynn Stegner, author of For All the Obvious Reasons
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