Death & Taxes
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Publisher Description
It had started out to be such a good year until he screwed things up. As a determined employee headed toward Edison Shaws office at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, California, he knows what he must do to protect his interests. A few moments after he enters Shaws office and closes the door for their meeting, the man pulls out a gun, points it at Shaws temple, and pulls the trigger just as planned.
In this compelling crime thriller, Dick Hartmann is a seasoned FBI agent who heads up San Franciscos Violent Crime Squad. When he and his elite squad are assigned to investigate a suspicious death at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, theyre soon led into the bowels of the citys largest street gang the Bulldogs. As the case grabs the attention of Americas president, the squad travels to Los Angeles and then to Mexico where they must infiltrate a drug cartel to take down a gang member with the power to ruin the lives of millions of American taxpayers. Now only time will tell if they can stop him before it is too late.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A daring murder at the Fresno, Calif., IRS Service Center kicks off Rupp's novel of suspense, which inaugurates a series featuring debonair Dick Hartmann of the FBI's San Francisco Violent Crime Squad. Despite the killer's efforts to stage a suicide, the death of Edison Shaw, an IRS auditor, is quickly deemed a homicide, and Dick and his team, which he's dubbed the Animals, are dispatched to the scene to investigate. They include the newest Animal, rookie agent Coleen Ryan, who makes a powerful impression on her new boss from the outset ("She has great pins that go all the way up to her ass and is well endowed upstairs. I don't need this distraction at work, he thought"). The Animals try to establish the murderer's motive by identifying the suspicious activities that Shaw was looking into at the time of his death. Their work leads them to a vicious street gang, the Bulldogs, and a fraud that raises red flags at the highest levels of government. Rupp keeps the twists coming. (BookLife)
