The Vig: A Novel (Dismas Hardy)

A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody elses money. Its the vig the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay Down-and-out-lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay. Dead. But a friend of Ingrahams, former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, isnt so sure. And Hardy has to find out, because a stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill Ingraham and Dismas Hardy both. Now, to save his own skin, Dismas must face down liars and killers on both sides of the law. From mob foot soldiers to brokenhearted lovers to renegade cops, a dozen lives are tied to the fate of Rusty Ingraham and the payback has only just begunJohn T. Lescroart is the author of 'The Vig: A Novel (Dismas Hardy)' with ISBN 9781556112218 and ISBN 1556112211.