Zero Tolerance

A SIMPLE MISSING PERSONS CASE

It looked like it would be easy. But the retainer suggested otherwise: a fat check for twenty-five grand. Dr. David Faber wants bounty hunter Virgit Proctor to find his repeat offender son, Walt. By skipping his arraignment, the kid has graduated from scofflaw to felon-on-the-run. Faber wants Walt to give himself up. And he's willing to pay Virgil three times his usual per-diem fee....

All leads are cold until Virgil sees the obituaries: Walt's heiress aunt is dead-and the kid stands to inherit her fortune. Suddenly Walt looks less like a felon and more like a missing heir. An heir likely to stay missing as Virgil closes in on the truth. Someone lobs a brick inscribed with red-letter threats from the Book of Luke. Then a swastika is scratched into the door of his pickup. Virgil is getting too close to something nasty--and big. Then somebody torches his house and executes his friend. Now Virgil's playing for keeps, aiming to nail the killer for good....