Jay Lillie

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October 23, 2008

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USA Book News selects PACIFIC REBOUND, by Jay Lillie as a finalist in the Literary Fiction-Adventure/Thriller category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards competition.

Jay Lillie, a career international legal advisor to American business throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, writes from his home in Cary, North Carolina.

Pacific Rebound is Jay’s second novel and takes place around the Pacific Rim. His first, Havana Passage, a political thriller released in 2005, is set in Washington, Havana and Miami in 2009 during the first term of a new U.S. President. The President’s Choice, Jay’s upcoming novel, a murder mystery involving Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, is due for release in 2010.   

Jay is an award-winning essayist as well, and speaks on radio and in person on current issues involving U.S. foreign policy, and in Q&A Sessions on what many of us don’t know we don’t know about the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

For more information on Pacific Rebound and Havana Passage also contact A. Hardin at Ivy House publishing:  ahardin@ivyhousebooks.com  

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October 20, 2008

PACIFIC REBOUND awarded selection as one of six finalists in the Adventure/Thriller category for fiction published in 2008 and late 2007.

The word “moonerang” cannot be in Wikipedia, because it’s not real. If it were not a fictional word, its wiki definition might resemble this:

moonerang, n. 1. a black piece of an unknown substance that can be propelled through the earth’s atmosphere with little or no friction to slow it down or make it fall quickly to earth. 2. a weapon, similar to a boomerang but more efficient, used for three generations by a group of lost aboriginals in the Northern Territories of Australia to gather food. 3. a term coined by an intrepid explorer who came across these weapons in the Great Victoria Desert of Australia when in the presence of a group of the lost aboriginals. 4. As in the new Jay Lillie novel, Pacific Rebound, released in June of 2008.

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(New York, NY, February 4, 2008) Suit was filed today in the Supreme Court for New York County alleging successful novelist and New York lawyer, Jay Lillie, libeled the infamous Japanese mob through his realistic portrayal of its activities in PACIFIC REBOUND (Ivy House Publishing; $16.95).

PACIFIC REBOUND projects the story of Peter White, a well known New York corporate executive, who takes on a couple of Japanese mobsters who are after his lady friend. The Yakuza follow them both to Honolulu and across the Pacific, while Peter White conducts business with one hand and holds his girlfriend’s hand with the other.

What were the Yakuza after? Why were they following the attractive woman Peter White was escorting around the Pacific Basin? This woman is the real mystery in this story. Who was she? And what was she trying to get her hands on . . . besides Mr. White?

This character, Peter White, certainly had his own hands full between the good looking lady on his hip and his company’s President on his case for not attending to business. We get to know these players intimately, traveling with them across the Pacific and through Sydney, Tokyo, Alice Springs and Auckland, communing with the lost Aboriginals out back in Australia and meeting an unforgettable Maori Chief in New Zealand.

No spokespersons for the Yakuza were available for comment, but the complaint alleges that PACIFIC REBOUND details an ongoing course of criminal activity that Plaintiffs assert is malicious and extremely damaging to the image of Japan. They point out that Lillie is an experienced international lawyer who would know the confidences he intentionally discloses are not generally known outside Japan.

The author, reached at his country residence in the North Carolina Research Triangle, stated he was aware of the lawsuit being filed, but that his intentions in writing PACIFIC REBOUND were not malicious. Lillie quoted Mark Twain as saying the difference between telling the truth and writing fiction is that fiction has to be credible.

If anyone is libeled by PACIFIC REBOUND it’s the Imperial Government of Japan. While it’s highly doubtful the Japanese government would enter this case on behalf of their nation’s criminals, the author admits taking liberties in exposing the tight conspiratorial relationship between industry and government in Japan.

The American Embassy in Tokyo and the Embassy of Japan in Washington both refused comment on the New York lawsuit, but an unconfirmed source suggested the Japanese government would not want to be cross-examined about their role in PACIFIC REBOUND.

The author’s contemporaries in the legal community wonder where he gets all these ideas about international business and politics that he writes about. “If they’re not libelous maybe they should be,” one lawyer said.

“Jay Lillie has written a lot of legal fiction for his clients,” said, YYY, a well known lawyer and ex-partner of Lillie’s in Manhattan and Tokyo, “but he outdid himself on this one.”

Retired British Major General and literary critic, ZZZZZ, said, “Lillie has a lot of guts publishing this story. I’ve had equally exciting experiences in these places, but my friends would have a fit if I published them.”

“One of Lillie’s clients in Manhattan had this to say: “Jay Lillie is fearless when it comes to exposing what few Westerners know about these cultures. I guess he’ll need to sell even more books to pay for this lawsuit.”

We asked the lawyer for the reputed New York Mafia, Alphonzo Ragazzi, what he thought of PACIFIC REBOUND. “It’s a pack of lies. There’s no truth in it. My clients are determined to pursue this case. If we lose they’ll probably put out a contract on Lillie. Either way, this is not over ’till it’s over.”

We asked Jay Lillie how seriously we should take what he wrote in PACIFIC REBOUND, which after all is one of his novels. “This is a beach book that’s good enough to keep you out of the water,” he said. “The paperback edition will be released in May – just in time for summer.”

It’s true that PACIFIC REBOUND keeps you guessing and coming back for more. So go ahead and take your dip in the ocean; but hide the book under your beach towel or it might not be there when you get back.

For more information contact Ms. Anna Howland at the publisher. ahowland@ivyhousebooks.com

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New Book transports us to Havana, Cuba after Castro is gone

(New York, N.Y.) Jay Lillie, a New York based international lawyer, shows us what is likely to happen when Fidel Castro is no longer a presence on the world scene.

Fidel would not agree to relinquish any portion of his power to anyone during his lifetime, but he’s made a deal for what comes after. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman, has bought into the selection process with petro dollars, and Castro’s successor will become a very rich man.

Fidel Castro is accomplished at playing one adversary against another. He flirts with China to annoy Washington; he colludes with Venezuela to further his own goals of anti-U.S. regimes across Latin America; and he taunts his ex-countrymen in Florida by trading Cuban goods in the Bahamas only 70 miles east of Miami; but Castro is not going to share his throne with anyone so long as he’s alive.

Meanwhile, Chavez and Castro work together to form a leftist hegemony from Caracas, across Columbia and Bolivia, over the isthmus of Panama and on up Central America to Mexico City, back around through Cuba and the Caribbean, in other words the whole U.S. backyard from where 30% of the country’s daily petroleum needs originate. When Fidel is no longer around, Chavez doesn’t want some newcomer in Havana with ties to Washington. Those close to the situation believe Chavez will make his move on Havana while the lawyers and politicians in Washington argue about the claims Cuban/Americans have under the Helms/Burton law against the old Cuban regime.

Lillie’s book, HAVANA PASSAGE, is set in this environment several years hence. This is a peek today into tomorrow’s history, and between the book’s covers heroes emerge from unexpected places trying to save Cuba for Cubans.

Jay Lillie has become a favorite invitee on national and regional news radio/television talk shows on the subject of Cuba after Castro.