ASIN: B004YKZKF2
Publisher: Michael A. Smith
Pages: 207
In this classic murder mystery set in the late 1970s, ex-Chicago cop Jack Olsen and his new girlfriend, Kate Carter, try to prevent the Mob from building a resort complex that would bring drugs, gambling and prostitution to the pristine Lake of the Ozarks region in Central Missouri.At the onset, a suspicious “boating accident” witnessed by Olsen kills Geoff Gentry, a local millionaire and environmentalist. Beth Lacy, the dead man’s friend and companion, hires Jack to find Gentry’s killers. Olsen turns to local legal sage, Roy Cousins, to help him identify suspects—which eventually includes the widow Lacy.Also, there’s drug-addled Alan Gentry, the grandson, and his ne’er-do-well sidekick, Spider. The granddaughter, Barbara Gentry, is a Barbie doll wired with dynamite who uses her bodybuilder boyfriend, Hank Loomis, to get what she wants.Butch Banuchi is a “businessman” from Chicago. ...
