Escape Velocity - Hardcover

**Winner of the 2017 IPPY GOLD MEDAL in suspense/thrillers**
--Independent Publishers Book Awards

"Wolfe made her debut in 1989 with The Last Billable Hour, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Her accomplished, amusing follow-up, a thriller set in California's Silicon Valley, stars paralegal Georgia Griffin . . . . Wolfe, a lawyer who knows the high-tech world, makes a very welcome return."
--Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

"A conflicted and complicated protagonist shows up in Susan Wolfe's Escape Velocity, and the conflicts are laugh-out-loud funny. Legal aid Georgia Griffin [who] has been a con-artist-in-training since early childhood . . . attempts to go straight. . . . If there are any faults in this riotous caper of a novel, it's that there are enough of Georgia's boardroom scams to make up four books and still have some left over. But then Escape Velocity wouldn't be as much fun without them. . . . The insider information in this book is astounding, but no wonder. Edgar-winning author Wolfe has worked as an in-house attorney for a Silicon Valley company, and obviously knows where the bodies are buried -- and who put them there."
--Mystery Scene Magazine

"Georgia is a gem of a main character -- an employee not afraid to use her "cons" to give the incompetent and malevolent Lumina employees their just desserts. . . . Wolfe's legal expertise, good sense of humor and writing chops make Escape Velocity a real winner."
--Deadly Pleasures Magazine, Rating A-

"This inside look into the mind of a trained con artist will thrill readers who've always wanted to know how they come up with their ideas: and following along as a young - and female - conman cons other conmen, all in the name of greater good, will keep readers up all night, refusing to put the book down."
--InD'tale Magazine, 5-Star Review

"Wow. Edgar winner Susan Wolfe is back big time--with a cleverly written, wickedly hilarious, and surprisingly touching financial thriller. Or is it? The marvelous Georgia Griffin will win you over, continually surprise you--and then sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.Loved it."
--Hank Phillippi Ryan, award-winning author of Say No More

"Continuous action, sharp intrigue and memorable characters captivate in this coiling plot of a thriller. This one is definitely ahead of the pack."
--Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author of The 14th Colony

"Susan Wolfe's new book is wryly funny, suspenseful, and clever, and gives us an eye-opening look inside the high tech industry."
--Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Ill Will

"Readers craving full-on immersion in the dirty tricks of Silicon Valley will love every page of Escape Velocity. Susan Wolfe's cast of colorful villains, con artists, and just plain folks caught up in high-stakes industry games is painstakingly drawn and always unpredictable. Good, clever fun with a thriller of an ending." 
--Laura Benedict, author of The Abandoned Heart

"A financial and legal thriller with rich character development that creates an absolutely compelling stay-up-all-night read."
--Alice LaPlante, award-winning author of Turn of Mind

"Instantly addictive and disconcertingly credible, Escape Velocity will send the unwary reader pell-mell through the mazy proceedings and gamesmanship of corporate Silicon Valley. If the adrenaline rush isn't enough, then the endearing vigilantism (often based on perhaps a few too many moral shades of gray) will close the deal...I never knew how much I wanted to know about the legal and economic ins-and-outs of the tech industry until Susan Wolfe, uniquely positioned to illuminate both, decided to write this exhilarating novel."
--Lynn Stegner, award-winning author of Undertow and Fata Morgana and nominee for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

"Not only highly entertaining, but also insightful and informative about Silicon Valley's high tech industry, whose principals are not always what they claim."  
--Barbara Babcock, Professor Emerita of Stanford Law School, and author of Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz and Fish Raincoats