Total Immunity
A Novel of Crime
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Publisher Description
L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain.
Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they’ve met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who’s about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. Then, one by one, they start to die.
Knowing they could be next, Harper and Hidalgo are out to stop a man they already have behind bars. It’s an impossible situation that only gets worse when Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and is freed with total immunity. But as their investigation reveals shocking secrets within the bureau, Harper and Hidalgo realize that Steinbach is the least of their worries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Ward's overblown crime novel, two Los Angeles FBI agents, Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo, are thrilled when their successful sting brings down South African jewel smuggler Karl Steinbach. They laugh off Steinbach's promise that everyone involved will soon die, but when a fellow agent's brakes fail and another is pushed in front of an oncoming train, Harper and Hidalgo fear they might be next. As the pair investigate their slain comrades' lives, they discover that what looked like a case of retribution is actually tied to a web of deceit that stretches to the highest echelons of the FBI. Ward (Four Kinds of Rain) mixes in a melodramatic subplot involving Harper's young son, Kevin, whose attempts at teenage rebellion coincidentally put him in the center of his father's investigation. A former writer for Miami Vice, Ward weighs down what could have been a slick tale of greed and corruption with hollow heroes and stereotypical villains.
