Dolphin Deception
When law partner Steve Solomon finds himself on a high-speed chase against Jet-skiing, eco-terrorists, he ends up in waters deeper than Key Biscayne in South Florida. By dawn, one person is dead and Steve has a new client:the extreme animal rights activists.
Dolphin liberators? Or is something more ominous going on?
In Paul Levine's Trial and Error, the fourth in his Solomon vs Lord series, law partners Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord--who also happen to be lovers--return to duke it out and find the truth behind these devious, aquatic dealings. But there's one additional complication: Lord is prosecutor and the partners end up on opposite sides of the case.
Key to these four books is the relationship banter and struggle between the couple. "The two are really different," says Levine. "But they love each other and are better together and more productive than if each were alone."
A trial lawyer for 17 years, Levine started out as a journalist for The Miami Herald covering criminal courts in Miami, FL. "Watching trials fascinated me," he says. But he soon discovered that law work involved a lot of day-to-day drudgery and time keeping. He started writing as therapy and finally quit law after he sold his second book.
These days if something interests him he asks himself, how can I make a book out of that?
"I became fascinated with dolphins driving from Miami to Key West and picked up a book on how dolphins communicate," Levine says. "Some stories say dolphins can sense if a person has a tumor. We do know if a bunch of children are in the water that dolphins will go to the child with developmental problems. They're special animals."
Paul Levine is the author of the bestselling Jake Lassiter novels, which have been published in 23 countries. He is the second recipient of the John D. MacDonald Award for fiction and has been nominated for an Edgar Award and a Thriller Award. In addition to writing novels, he is a screenwriter. A screen adaptation of his book, SPEAK FOR THE DEAD, appeared as an NBC movie in 1995. TRIAL AND ERROR is Levine's twelfth novel.
