Trouble in Mendocino

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

Niles Bergman was a wealthy tech executive by day. At night, he was a diabolical serial killer. His victims were young women from Reno who saw ads offering help to break into the high tech world. The ads were too good to be true, but desperation blinded a few young women. Niles promised a well-paid job, a free apartment, and access to a glamorous life. The woman needed to be a certain age and a certain body size. Amazingly, a few came and then paid the price, washing up dead in the San Francisco Bay.

One victim's aunt asked Jack Beckett for help. She was being threatened for pushing the police to investigate her niece's death. But it wasn't the police who threatened her. It was a mysterious voice on the phone who knew what was said to the police. As Beckett tracked that down, he got closer to the murky world of Niles Bergman. Niles had goons do his dirty work, and he sent them to kidnap and kill Beckett. But Beckett turned the tables, and the henchmen took the hit. 

As Niles felt the heat, he made a fatal mistake. His fourth victim arrived from Reno, and he carelessly revealed his dark side. She escaped and set up a stunning battle in the coastal town of Mendocino. Trapped in a lodge in the woods, Beckett and FBI agent Riley O'Connor make a final stand against Bergman and his gang of thugs. After a furious gunfight, one man is left standing.   

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