Synopsis
After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas.As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest fo a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly, he realizes it is not heroin or cocaiine that resulted in the murder fo his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art--something dazzling in the information int hold s as to be oe of the treasures of the ages.In a quest that takes Madriani form California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
Release date: August 26, 2003
Publisher: Berkley
Print pages: 416
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