Book Thirteen of the Mackenzie August Mystery Series Everyone knows Mackenzie August doesn’t take on trainees. The work is personal and often dangerous. But when Edgar Betts comes knocking, Mackenzie is forced to reconsider. Mackenzie owes Edgar, and Edgar’s pleads with him, father to father. His son Elijah lost his PI license, which he never should have received in the first place. Elijah plans to get the license back and continue his career, but he’s a young gun too foolish to survive. Please, the father begs, help my boy. Teach him, train him. Little do either of the men know, Elijah is already in trouble, far worse than they could imagine.Continue the Mackenzie myste...

AN AMAZON MYSTERY BEST SELLER★★★★★ "A rousing crime novel." - Amazon Top Reviewer Mack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys--until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coach. He's galvanizing the drug trade using vicious strong-arm tactics, and the police can't identify him. The Sheriff begs Mackenzie to take a temporary assignment teaching at an inner city school, to infiltrate the general's operative ranks inside, identify the ...