Mario Balzic, chief of the Rocksburg PD likes,keeping his investigative hand in, especially when,there's a fat fee involved such as the $50 an hour,offered by lawyer Panagios Valcanas to check out a,gun-shop burglary that might also be a scam,involving the insurance company that Valcanas,represents. But, nothing is quite as simple as it,at first seems and Balzic, dogged by ill-health,finds himself in the thick of it with some,dangerous customers to contend with.,""One of American literature's great masters of,dialogue."" - Washington Post.