Forced Entry
(2026)(The third book in the Ray Kessler FBI Thrillers series)
A novel by Phillip Strang
She spent ten weeks in a rehabilitation facility. She came home to a boarded house. Every step that put her there was legal.
Ruth Cottrell is seventy-nine years old and has lived on the same street in Anne Arundel County for forty-one years. While she was recovering from a broken hip, a preservation crew arrived at her house with a work order stating the property was vacant, and did the job they were sent to do.
They were wrong. They were also following correct instructions, issued on the correct date, at a price within the approved schedule.
FBI Special Agent Ray Kessler has a hazard referral, a month his supervisor has given him off the books, and paperwork on one address. What he lacks is an offense. Every letter went out on the day the servicing guide required. Every person he interviews is doing their job properly and can prove it.
Then a man dies in a house nobody was supposed to be living in, and Kessler stops looking for somebody who decided this — and starts looking for the system that did.
Sixty days to the auction. One witness who wrote things down.
‘For readers of Michael Connelly and Don Winslow — a lean, devastating FBI procedural where violence, bureaucracy, and human cost collide.’
Genre: Thriller
Ruth Cottrell is seventy-nine years old and has lived on the same street in Anne Arundel County for forty-one years. While she was recovering from a broken hip, a preservation crew arrived at her house with a work order stating the property was vacant, and did the job they were sent to do.
They were wrong. They were also following correct instructions, issued on the correct date, at a price within the approved schedule.
FBI Special Agent Ray Kessler has a hazard referral, a month his supervisor has given him off the books, and paperwork on one address. What he lacks is an offense. Every letter went out on the day the servicing guide required. Every person he interviews is doing their job properly and can prove it.
Then a man dies in a house nobody was supposed to be living in, and Kessler stops looking for somebody who decided this — and starts looking for the system that did.
Sixty days to the auction. One witness who wrote things down.
‘For readers of Michael Connelly and Don Winslow — a lean, devastating FBI procedural where violence, bureaucracy, and human cost collide.’
Genre: Thriller
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