Last Call by James Grippando

Last Call by James Grippando

A kid from Miami's meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime. He was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit when lawyer Jack Swyteck proved him innocent. Now they are best friends. Theo is a semi-respectable and successful bar owner, but the past, with its risks and its terrors, has come knocking on his back door. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood wants sanctuary, and in return he is offering information: the identity of the killer who left Theo's mom lying dead in the street on a hot South Florida evening.

Theo wants justice, but the answers are not simple. He and Jack must now piece together a twenty-year-old conspiracy of greed and corruption that's pointing toward the city's most elite and powerful. And digging through a history that Theo has struggled his whole life to forget could awaken some very desperate, very deadly sleeping dogs.

James Naughton has received Tony Awards for his performances on Broadway in City of Angels and Chicago, as well as a Mac Award for his one-man show James Naughton: Street of Dreams. He was the director of the critically praised revivals of Our Town and Arthur Miller's The Price on Broadway. He appeared in Brooklyn Bridge, The Cosby Mysteries, and Ally McBeal on television. The Devil Wears Prada, The Good Mother, The Glass Menagerie, and The Paper Chase are among his films.