A Firing Offense the culper ring series Pendergast is abruptly forced to

Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner

and bandmates

When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents

breezy and highly readable

Nick says he'll try

A Firing Offense the culper ring series Pendergast is abruptly forced toIn this gritty crime novel, the disappearance of a stockboy sets salesman Nick Stefanos on a dangerous investigation that changes his life forever. As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid