The Fitzgerald Ruse (Sam Blackman Series)

About this book

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville NC as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders Sam found new meaning for his life. Now he and his partner Nakayla Robertson are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases. Their first client a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community makes a strange request. She wants Sam to right a wrong she committed more than 70 years ago. Her victim: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her crime: stealing a manuscript. Sams task seems simple enough: retrieve the womans lockbox and deliver the manuscript to Fitzgeralds heirs. But nothing is simple for Sam. The lockbox is sealed with a swastika a symbol his client insists predates the Nazis and reflects a scene from The Great Gatsby. Then a security guard is killed and the lockbox disappears. Not only has this investigation triggered a murder but Sams final military case has followed him from Iraq and neither he nor anyone close to him is safe....