Paul Levine Shares His Playlist for Bum Deal
The author of 21 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald Fiction Award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes. He wrote 20 episodes of the CBS military drama JAG and co-created the Supreme Court drama First Monday. "To Speak for the Dead," a Jake Lassiter legal thriller, was his debut novel. His most recent novel is the newly released “Bum Deal.” If readers were listening to music as they enjoyed your book, what song would be playing with the opening scene? Why? After a brief action sequence involving a surgeon who might have killed his wife, BUM DEAL opens with our protagonist, trial lawyer Jake Lassiter, sipping tequila and chilling out at the Red Fish Grill, an outdoor restaurant a few feet from the beach at Matheson Hammock in Miami. Jimmy Buffet, the troubadour of the Florida Keys, comes to mind. Sure, there’s “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” But I’m thinkin
