HardScape (Ben Abbott #1)

By: Justin Scott

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Synopsis: In the picturesque village of Newbury, Connecticut, Benjamin Abbott III is scrambling to save his family's recession-battered real estate agency when a New York City detective offers him five thousand dollars to video a beautiful new resident, Rita Long, who is cheating on her husband. Hire a pro, says Ben. But the detective has done his homework. Scion of one of Newbury's first families, Ben Abbott has come home from triumph and shame, having graduated Annapolis, served with Naval Intelligence, and flourished as a Wall Street player in the go-go 1980's until an insider trading charge landed him in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Broke now and itching for a little action, Ben takes the job against his better judgment, and in a flash--the flash of gunfire--he finds himself enmeshed in the murder of Rita Long's boyfriend. Shortly after, Ben's cousin and boyhood friend, Renny Chevalley, is found dead in the cockpit of a plane filled with cocaine Seeking answers to the two deaths, Ben finds himself--and, once again, his good name--at mortal risk.