When does the Con Seduce 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 … 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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Newly hired paralegal and daughter of a con man uses her familial skills to save her new employer, a software firm, from the destructive actions of some of her fellow employees. Is someone behind the scenes trying to destroy the company and why?
DRama based on a rural young woman moving to the big city and getting immersed in office politics at her first job.
Overall I liked this book but it was a bit choppy in that there were several little subplots that came up, were resolved, then the main story moved on. All the subplots contributed to the main story but it just felt kind of Eire to have all these little sequential vignettes.
I totally enjoyed this book. It centers around big business and the legal/ethical decisions that are made each day. There is a lot of legal jargon I wasn’t familiar with, but was explained as the book went along. Very interesting how the behind-the -scenes deals are made. Some of the characters and situations are so frustrating, yet I’m sure we all have people like this working with us on a daily basis. Good read.
Needed a better editor. Interesting characters, but too repetitive and slow moving at times
A well-written, enjoyable, engaging read. I will look for other books by this author.
Unique twist. Loved it.
This book is entertaining and fun to read, although not very realistic. I do like the main characters. But seriously, if every company was populated with so many over the top, awful people in almost every top position…….well, we wouldn’t have any successful businesses. I’ll admit it was fun to have them get their comeuppance though!
Good imaginative plot. Fun to read.
Quite original, with a good plot “hook” – an ex fraudster lady working in a Silicon Valley corporation.
ESCAPE VELOCITY began as a somewhat difficult read, but, once I caught on to the story line, it was very catchy. Our heroine became a young woman who won her own personal battle for success, and I was cheering for her to win out.
Great entertainment!
“Escape Velocity” is a mundane narrative featuring a con artist whose cons are silly and transparent. That her victims fail to see through the cons is a major fault in the book. The cons are too simple, the victims too gullible for executives in a major software corporation. The ending is trite as well. Perhaps a good Lifetime movie.
Didn’t sort of a mystery. If you are in the business world, you would probably enjoy it because of how businesses work.
I liked the heroine so much that I had to stop reading near the end, for a day or two. Couldn’t tell which way her story would end—
Won’t spoilt it for you, but highly recommend this book.
Well written adventure inside corporate America but represented by a company in Silicon Valley. A fun but disturbing exploration of the different agendas within a company that threaten it existence.
I now understand that market forces may threaten a company, but the internal power struggles can close it.
I highly recommend it.
I really enjoyed this. It’s a good read. Because of the real world interruptions I had to keep putting the book down, which I don’t like to do. The book was well written so that I could do that and not suffer going back to re-read things. I will read this again and enjoy it again. I recommend both this and the author’s first book ‘The Last Billable Hour’. Treat yourself and get them both.
Kept me reading but sort of like “why” at the end.
Brilliant writing. Unique plotline. Susan Wolfe writes legal thrillers like no other.