EASY MONEY, EMPTY POCKETSRay Mallory knows how to find trouble.He just never learned when to leave it alone.A private investigator with $187 in his personal account and a tax bill breathing down his neck, Mallory gets a chance to turn his luck around. Victor Hale, a smooth-talking financier with expensive tastes and a talent for making problems disappear, offers him a bridge loan. Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars moves through Mallory’s agency account.Then the money vanishes.Hale calls it business. Mallory calls it a mistake. The bank calls it authorized.And the IRS wants its money.Mallory starts asking questions. The answers lead to a waterfront development, a crooked investment deal, a company that never agreed to move, and a woman who knows more than she’s telling. Somewhere in the middle sits a photograph that could blow the whole operation apart.There’s only one problem.Mallory has kept it to himself.Now the money is moving, the witnesses are getting nervous, and Hale has discovered that a man can be bought for less than the cost of ruining him. Mallory has to decide what the truth is worth before somebody else decides what he’s worth dead—or buried under a stack of charges.He thought he was borrowing time.He was selling it.In this business, easy money always comes with a bill. And the man who pays it is rarely the man who signed for it. Read more