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Mark Shaiken

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in New York City, The United States

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http://markshaikenauthor.com

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Genre

Thriller, Mystery, Memoir

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michael connelly, dashiell hammett, ernest hemingway

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Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He schooled at Haverford College and Washburn University, and practiced commercial bankruptcy law for almost forty years before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of the following books in his award-winning 3J Legal Thriller Series, all set in Kansas City, with a backdrop of Jazz, BBQ and history: Cram Down, Unfair Discrimination, Automatic Stay, and Fresh Start. He is also the author of And . . Just Like That - essays on a life before, during, and after the law (a memoir of a not famous lawyer). Connect with Mark at http://markshaikenauthor.com ...more

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	Cram Down 4.49 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfair Discrimination (3J Legal Thriller) 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fresh Start (3J Legal Thriller) 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Automatic Stay a 3J mystery (2) 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I Was An Attorney

I was an attorney for a long time. Four decades. And four plus years ago I went to court for the last time, said goodnight to my legal assistant for the last time, and rode the elevator down twenty-four stories for the last time. I exited our building onto Denver’s 16th Street Mall and into whatever would come next.

When asked, “who am I?” I no longer respond by saying, “I’m a lawyer.” And that wa Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Shaiken liked V's review of Cram Down: "Each of the 3J series I’ve read has been filled with complex legal cases. Attorney 3J is inventive, smart and resourceful when she defends her clients. She has a network of other people who are skilled at investigation, technological sleuthing, deep " Read more of this review »
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Mark Shaiken liked Pat Hughes's review of Cram Down: "Another rollicking unpredictable and eloquently written story about Shaiken’s great protagonist, Josephina Jones (3J to her friends, including us readers)Tho it is a bit bewildering how a bankruptcy lawyer ends up in middle of mobster contract killers" Read more of this review »
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Another home run Mr. Lee does it again. Wild Card is a wild ride through the world of high stakes gambling, and mafias from too many countries to even mention. Richly drawn characters- both the good guys and the bad guys. Bravo. Highly recommended.
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“Let’s not dance around it: the truth, the whole truth, and noth- ing but the truth. Turns out, I don’t do well with that second truth. I’ll have to work on that in prison. It’ll give me something else to do and something to talk about in the weekly group get-togethers with the prison shrink.”
― Mark Shaiken, Fresh Start

tags: court, law, legal, the-whole-truth, truth

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“It’s time for me to conduct my life on some basis other than the one-foot-in-front-of-the-other plan I’ve been using the last few years. Some lawyers get to thinking that the ride will never end. But it always does, one way or another. The question is: will it end on your terms or will it end suddenly, with no terms?”
― Mark Shaiken, Automatic Stay a 3J mystery

tags: career, lawyers, life, lives-we-live

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“Jazz certainly has the power to bring out the best in the melting pot experiment we call America.”
― Mark Shaiken, Fresh Start

tags: america, jazz, melting-pot

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“It's ok to dream.”
― Mark Shaiken, And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law

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“We live the lives we live, because that’s all there is. No meaning. No grand plan. No one pulling the strings; no strings to pull. Just a deep need to find a way forward without a great deal of help and no manual with directions.”
― Mark Shaiken, Automatic Stay a 3J mystery

tags: life, lives-we-live

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tags: career, lawyers, life, lives-we-live

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“I really like playing my guitars. Y’know, they don’t call it working my guitars, right?”
― Mark Shaiken, Automatic Stay a 3J mystery

tags: guitar, life, life-lessons, music

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“It’s time for me to come to grips with who I am and who I’m not at this point in my life. Those two change as we get older. Time to figure out what I know and what I don’t. Those also change. The practice of law interferes with those determinations sometimes.”
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tags: aging, law, practice-of-law

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