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Title: Played!

Author: Michael A. Kahn

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-17

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Legal Thrillers

Publisher's Summary:

Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for his skills, but untested in the courtroom.

Milton's younger brother, Hal, is his polar opposite - strikingly handsome, a high-school baseball legend in St. Louis who was on his way to the major leagues until he destroyed his prospects in a motorcycle accident. Hal had been, and still is, the adored Bernstein brother - worshipped by his mother, his aunts, and the rest of his family, plus all the high-school and college cheerleaders. Milton has learned to live with his lower star-power while Hal unabashedly admires Milton's career and happy marriage.

Neither brilliant nor driven, Hal has to face up to earning a living. For now he's killing time as a lifeguard at an exclusive country club. His days at the pool are mostly filled with women, kids, and fantasies about the hot babe called Cherry.

But the lives of both brothers are about to change. Cherry, the bombshell third wife of St. Louis' most shark-like litigator, Leonard Pitt, unexpectedly turns Hal's advances around. They become lovers. Coincidentally, Milton becomes the attack dog behind litigation to nail Pitt for running an insurance scam on his injured clients.

Tangling with the Pitts is a game-changer for both brothers. Everyone is a tool of someone else. The players' roster widens to include a judge who's nursed a 30-year grudge against Pitt, the judge's astute clerk, and a crooked cop. Then Milton suddenly finds himself fielding Hal's arrest for kidnapping and murder.

Played! is fast-moving, fun and, at its core, a story of brotherly love and loyalty. And baseball.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Well plotted, clever dialogue, believable characters.

Five Stars

Michael Kahn is always real good.

This comedic screw-up is laced with legal legerdemain, clever dialogue, clandestine encounters, but above all, brotherly love

Hereâs the beach read that will provide a diversion from the cares of this troubled world. PLAYED! is all about legal shenanigans, sexy affairs, clandestine meets and baseball.

Milton Bernstein, a successful middle-aged St. Louis corporate lawyer, won the DNA lottery for the brains and workaholic ethic from some ancestor. His younger brother, Hal, inherited the athleticism, good looks and charm from some other branch of the family tree. Each brother has made the most of his talents, put aside any differences, and remain good friends.

Miltonâs client list reads like the whoâs who of Missouriâs wealthiest country club set, while Hal, now in his 30s and once a shoo-in for the big leagues of baseball, works at the country club as a lifeguard. A motorcycle accident robbed Hal of his future as a major league pitcher, but he seems content with his lot in life. He is as successful with perfecting his courtship of beautiful ladies as his older brother is of navigating the intricacies of corporate law.

However, neither is prepared for the red-hot Cherry, the unhappy third wife of Miltonâs legal nemesis, Leonard Pitt. Heâs that guy all over the Midwestern billboards and TV who pledges to solve all of your legal problems.