False Profit (Marston/Cantini #2)

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Synopsis
Free-lance corporate investigator Paul Marston--the guy companies call when the books look funny or the deals smell fishy--is back on the job in this hard-boiled, sexy sequel to The Bottom Line Is Murder. This time his client is Jack Burns, a wildly successful investment broker dubbed by the media "the Prophet of Junk Bonds." Burns is definitely on the Southern California elite's A-list. His office occupies the penthouse of the most prestigious building in Beverly Hills; his name is whispered around the lunch tables at Spago and the Ivy. In a town where the telephone is mightier than the sword, even the most jaded super-agent and most sought-after whiz-kid director take his calls. But then Jack Burns gets himself into some hot water: he's found boiled to death in his Malibu hot tub. The police think it's a straightforward, if bizarre, accident. But the disappearance of $5 million in client investments--and intimations of incest, fraud, and prostitution--lead Marston to suspect murder. Together with his unlikely partner and temperamental lover, female martial-arts expert Angel Cantini (a real knockout in more ways than one), Marston follows a twisted trail of clues to a surreal Beverly Hills beauty salon, a Paris lesbian bar, a pet cemetery, and deep into the entrails of the American Dream before he locates the Prophet's missing profit and discovers the real reasons for his death. Permeated with seedy Southern California atmosphere and the not-so-sweet smell of success-at-any-price, False Profit is a darkly comic, action-packed mystery adventure into the dirty business of high finance.
Copyright:
1990

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
270 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780670827749
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Robert Eversz
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Evan Reese
Proofread By:
Kristin Mills
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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