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v, [1], 314 pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. the inscription

v, [1], 314 pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. the inscription reads: "To Caroline & Claire, Best Wishes, James Grippando". The dust jacket has minor wear, soiling and flap creasing. James Grippando is an American novelist and lawyer best known as the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Leapholes, Grippando's first novel for young adults ever to be published by the American Bar Association. That same year (2006), Grippando's first short story, Operation Northwoods, was published in an anthology (Thriller: Stories to Keep you Up at Night Thriller (book)) with other top thriller writers. His first novella, The Penny Jumper, was published in 2016. His first play, Watson, about IBM founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., made its world premiere at GableStage in Coral Gables Florida in 2019. His first radio play, With L, earned commendation in the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition 2020. Grippando served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Clark, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta. As a lawyer, Grippando wrote numerous scholarly articles. 1980s, he shifted to creative writing, but his first attempt at fiction was never published. [6] A near arrest in a case of mistaken identity sparked an idea for a new novel about a man accused of a murder that he may not have committed. Grippando's first published novel, The Pardon, was released in September 1994, where he first introduced the character Jack Swyteck, a Miami criminal defense lawyer. He left the law to write full-time. There are now nineteen novels in the Jack Swyteck series. Ryan Coolidge hates middle school and is in the worst kind of trouble-trouble with the law. The one person who can help Ryan is a mysterious old lawyer named Hezekiah. Hezekiah may have magical powers, or he may have the most elaborate computerized law library ever conceived. Either way, together, Ryan and Hezekiah do their legal research by zooming through leapholes, physically entering the law books, and coming face-to-face with actual people from some of our nation's most famous cases-like Rosa Parks and Dred Scott-who will help Ryan defend himself in court. It is time travel with a legal twist, where law books and important legal precedents come to life.