Susan Wolfe has spent much of her life effortlessly moving between the worlds of law and literature. After practicing law full time for four years, Wolfe took a break from the legal world and wrote the best-selling novel, The Last Billable Hour, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She then returned to practicing law for another sixteen years, first as a criminal defense attorney and then as an in-house lawyer for Silicon Valley tech companies. During her years working in the Valley, Wolfe had a behind-the-scenes view of the tech world and gained valuable experiences that would ultimately inspire the characters and story lines for her writing.

In Escape Velocity, her newest novel, released on September 4, 2016, Wolfe creates a web of intrigue based at Stanford and in Silicon Valley. The novel centers on Georgia, a woman moving to the Valley from Arkansas who plans to work as a paralegal for Lumina Software and break out from her family of con artists. She eventually discovers corruption at her new employer and decides to use her years of family training to clean up the company.

Barbara Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, at Stanford Law School shares that Escape Velocity is “not only highly entertaining but also insightful and informative about Silicon Valley’s high-tech industry, whose principals are not always what they claim.