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Dynamite Road (Captain Richard Bolitho Adventures)
Dynamite Road - Captain Richard Bolitho Adventures Author:Andrew Klavan im Bishop is a hard man, as cold as the wind off the water and tough to the point of brutality. Scott Weiss is Bishop's boss, a world-weary ex-cop who runs a private detective agency out of a concrete tower in the heart of San Francisco. Bishop's assignment is to investigate the airport and report back to Weiss. Bishop is willing to beat any man... more » into the ground and draw any woman into his bed to get the answers he's after. A pilot himself, he takes to the air to check out the illegal flights of a thug named Chris Wannamaker. Then he coolly seduces Wanna-maker's lonely wife in order to find out more. Back in the city, as Weiss struggles to rein Bishop in, he begins a connected investigation of his own. A death in a mansion in Presidio Heights, a seemingly random murder south of Market, an apparent suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge: all seem to be the work of Weiss' old nemesis, an expert gun-for-hire who goes by the name of Shadowman. Each step of this trail of blood seems to bring Weiss closer to Julie Wyant, a mysterious beauty who captures the imagination of every man she meets. Soon Bishop has found his way into the center of a massive criminal conspiracy, a plan set to climax with an act of audacious violence and a murder that would be impossible for any killer but one. With his operative's life in danger, Weiss begins a race against time to outsmart the murderer who still stalks his nightmares and to rescue the woman who haunts his dreams.« less