MEET C.T. ROBILLARD...
Private eye. Works the streets of Houston just a few years from now. He's one of the good ones. He'll get you results, and won't bleed you dry by milking the case. Right now, what he wants is to enjoy a late dinner after saving a councilman's runaway daughter from a human trafficking Russian dirtbag. What he gets is Police Inspector Koi, who drags the private investigator to the scene of a deadly arson. It seems someone made a call to Robillard's office from the building right after the blaze was set. The message seems to be a fire-induced glitch, so much white noise-and to Robillard, one more of Koi's ongoing hassles-until a trio of gunmen break in to Robillard's office, trying to destroy all traces of the call.
How how do the message, the gunmen, a dead engineer, a missing schoolteacher, and a case of industrial espionage all fit together? Putting the pieces together sets Robillard and his associate Kristie Barrett racing to get ahead of the arsonist's next inferno. But can they unravel the secrets at the heart of the fire before they get burned?
First book in the C.T. Robillard series by the prizewinning author of SHADY ACRES AND DARKER PLACES and HUNDRED ACRE.
