Deep Dive (Sam Acquillo Mysteries 9)

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Sam Acquillo has spent most of his time in the Hamptons hanging out with the other half of the moneyed wonderland cops and bartenders carpenters store clerks and firemen. He couldnt care less about the concerns of the 1% until his best friend Burton Lewis a certified billionaire is dragged into a high-profile death investigation. When Sams girlfriend Amanda notes "Didnt Fitzgerald say the rich are different from you and me?" "Yeah they can afford to be even more screwed up." A former corporate super star brought down by the machinations of the grasping class Sams not entirely unfamiliar with the cultural norms of super wealth. Its why he retreated to his cottage refuge at the tip of Oak Point Peninsula jutting into the Little Peconic Bay. But in the intervening years hes engaged with all forms of low life tough guys and connivers looking for that edge an easy path into a social order besotted with unattainable yearning. A world where the best revenge is one with no consequences no penalties or costs. For some there is no power without prestige and no prestige that cant be bought. They see no distinction between corporate profit and high-minded non-profits charity being the currency of social preeminence. In Deep Dive Sam discovers just how right he is. The rich can achieve a level of depravity and hate both invisible and incomprehensible to the rest of us.