A Rented World

The sequel to A Ghostly Shade of Pale finds Michael Parker leaving the first drug wars after investigating a corrupt governor. He enters the corporate world and high-level politics and finds that the organized crime figures who tried to kill him were amateurs compared to the political criminals he encounters in what he calls the unholy trinity of politics, crime, and business. Gangsters were corporate suits, hide behind the veneer of journalism, tap phones, make threatening calls, and enlist the police to eliminate enemies.Treachery is all around, and reaches all the way to the White House.