When the Captain gives him a month off to deal with his drinking problem, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth bails out to accept an invitation from an old pal to consult as head of security for a high-tech startup corporation.
With a respite from the pressures of small-town homicide investigations, he dives into the mundane administration of a security system and the supervision of a staff of inexperienced rent-a-cops.
But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a homicide investigation with overtones of corporate espionage and domestic terrorism, all the while butting heads with his counterparts in the local police. Instead of a much-needed rest, he is up to his eyeballs in the cold, heartless, and even sinister world of corporate finance, giving new meaning to the phrase hostile takeover.
Genre: Mystery
With a respite from the pressures of small-town homicide investigations, he dives into the mundane administration of a security system and the supervision of a staff of inexperienced rent-a-cops.
But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a homicide investigation with overtones of corporate espionage and domestic terrorism, all the while butting heads with his counterparts in the local police. Instead of a much-needed rest, he is up to his eyeballs in the cold, heartless, and even sinister world of corporate finance, giving new meaning to the phrase hostile takeover.
Genre: Mystery
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