Description
A phone call out of the blue from and old military school classmate - and a disconcerting visit from that classmate's sister - draws Detective Holland into a potentially lethal shell game involving hidden agendas, constantly shifting loyalties, and no room for bad choices. In his usual fashion, the detective manages to foist his unique approach to solving crimes upon every level of law enforcement, from a small-town Missouri sheriff to the FBI and beyond, while skirting not only the law but the unexpected dangers posed by the politically connected Habib family and a Russian gangster's duplicitous attorney while searching for an elusive shipping container packed with cultural artifacts stolen from the Iraqi National are hard to come by when no one is who - or where - they claim to be, and everyone seems to be out for their personal gain at the detective's