Manning Wolfe’s latest, DEAD BY PROXY, is out today. Here’s my take on it:

When defense attorney Byron Douglas must flee New York City before a mob hitman takes him out—and the Feds decline to help—he designs an unofficial witness protection program, fakes his own death, and disappears.

And the reader assumes he’ll spend the rest of the book living on the fringes of society, making no friends, keeping a low profile.

Wrong. Here’s where the author throws in a twist. Byron takes the opportunity to practice criminal defense law under a new identity, and suddenly he’s in the spotlight—the courtroom, the headlines—and lying not only to casual acquaintances, but to police, to judges, to everyone. He’s trapped in a web of lies. And thanks to his high-profile job, he’s looking over his shoulder double time.

From now on, it’s twist after twist: hitmen surface, a dead man returns, another dead man views his own body at the morgue. And finally a murderer is exposed.

Reading DEAD BY PROXY is like playing a game of literary Twister. Kudos to Manning Wolfe for serving up a suspenseful—and fun—book.

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FTC Disclaimer: I received an Advance Review Copy of Dead by Proxy and then purchased a copy for my Kindle. I paid for the ebook with my very own money. Nobody paid me to write this review. Nobody threatened me to get me to write it. Nobody said I’d better like the book or else. The words are all mine, and so are the ideas.