A good mystery thriller featuring wise-cracking Detroit PI Amos Walker. I've read a few other books by Estleman and for the most part I have enjoyed them. This is the 21st in the Amos Walker series so I have a lot of catching up to do! Anyway, this was an enjoyable read although for me it started out rather slow with Amos on the track of some stolen HDTV converter boxes. These are boxes that will convert the now-required digital TV signals into analog for use with older non-HD TVs. Well, that technology is already pretty dated with most of us using large-screen digital TVs now days (this book was written in 2011) and most non-digital TVs are now in land fills or thrift shops! So a detective looking for converter boxes? Would it be worth the effort? Well it turned out that the boxes were a front for smuggling high-grade heroin which ended up resulting in a couple of murders and getting the local Detroit police and the Feds involved. Amos was on a 3-day retainer to look into this so even though the person who hired him was killed, he stays involved and ultimately solves the case which also involved some connections with Chinese gangs and a former Korean sex slave turned entrepreneur out for world domination?? As Walker points out in the book -- shades of Sax Rohmer! Overall, I would mildly recommend this one and will probably be reading more in the series.

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