"Dark, subtle, complex sequel to DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER. Fantastic mystery/suspense."

Dan Shaw is working hard to pass the Florida bar, but he just has such a tough time staying out of trouble. That's especially true when his friend and hotshot lawyer Tom Petrie drags him into a case that has all the signs of being BIG trouble.

Petrie has been hired to track down a smooth con man who swindled a consortium of rich Florida clients out of $22 million. The rich people were embarrassed, so they want their money back with no police involvement. That means Petrie and Shaw plan their own con of the con-man. It's elaborate, convoluted and not guaranteed to work on Victor Trebuchet, the brilliant man behind the original scheme.

The con will take the pair and their friends to Italy, where they'll befriend Trebuchet and his stunning girlfriend -- setting off a sequence of events that will alter them forever.

Wow! This book is dark, subtle, and so complex with its characters, plots and subplots that you'll stay up all night reading it. Faust knits together a world of diverse characters and then explodes it all to hell at the end. You'll be left chilled and horrified. A fantastic sequel to DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER, mystery/suspense fans need to become acquainted with this fantastic author. I couldn't put it down and eagerly await the next book.

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted September 20, 2004

Dan Shaw hopes to be a lawyer some day--if he can only stay out of prison long enough to pass the bar. Neither is likely when he agrees to help a hotshot Florida attorney track down a slick con man whose swindled a consortium of well-to-do Paradise Key clients out of twenty-two million dollars. But the charismatic Victor Trebuchet and his sexy partner-in- crime are a lot more dangerous than anyone imagined. And the silken counter-sting set up in an Italian villa to snare the pair may end up trapping Shaw instead. With that much money on the line, anyone is liable to betray anyone. For now, Shaw's living the high life and he's way over his head. Soon he may find himself doing hard- time--or, worse, in a watery grave at the bottom of Bell Harbor.