Charlie Carr is Petievich's brilliant creation - a bullish Treasury Agent in the street-smart, sad-eyed tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. In One-Shot Deal, Carr rips the lid off an intricate scheme to print ten million in U.S. Treasury notes on stolen government security paper - a scam that begins in the inner sanctum of the U.S. Mint and ends in a pool of blood beneath the smoking barrel of Carr's .357 magnum.