Synopsis "Grass Sandal (in English)"
Noted trial lawyer Taylor Chu has been found brutally murdered at the base of the Bay Bridge, missing his hands, feet, and head. The newspapers, television, and radio news are filled with the story. How, then, can he also be sipping Glenlivet in private eye Eamon Gold's office?As Gold tries to solve this puzzle, he encounters ambitious Homeland Security agents, Marin County pornographers, Chinatown tong overlords, corrupt police officers, and a plot to import Hong Kong triad soldiers to start a gang war in San Francisco's Chinatown!Derringer and Thriller award-winning author Richard Helms delivers fast-paced, hard-hitting, knuckles-and-know-how action in the City by the Bay, in this exciting debut of his Eamon Gold series, GRASS SANDAL. "If the first chapter doesn't hook you on Grass Sandal, give up reading mysteries!" --Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award-winning author of SPIRAL, and THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER "More twists and turns than Lombard Street. Richard Helms serves up some of the smartest dialogue in the genre!"--William Kent Krueger, Edgar Award-winning author of ORDINARY GRACE
