Everything Is Jake: A T. R. Softly Detective Novel

A bungled plea deal and a missing FBI agent lead detective fictionΓÇÖs newest and most charming and intuitive sleuth, T. R. Softly, to confront the oddest of the forty-odd presidents of the United States in a tangled mystery about identity and trust. It starts in Manhattan: a federal plea deal goes off the rails when a mob boss inexplicably recants his testimony two days after voluntarily confessing his crimes in open court. Days later, in courts across the United States, other crime lords confess, then recant. Afraid that her office may have been ensnared into criminal behavior, assistant U.S. attorney Mallory Greenstock summons the intuitive and charming detective T. R. Softly, to find the instigator: an FBI agent now on the run. ItΓÇÖs SoftlyΓÇÖs second missing-person case in as many days: his oldest friend, Dr. Khaki Blumenthrace, an eminent neuroscientist, has also disappeared. As Softly begins his search nothing suggests the two cases are related. But he soon learns otherwise, when the trail takes him to Washington, D.C., and ultimately into the Oval Office, where the oddest of the forty-odd US presidents has been laying plans to emasculate the U.S. government. Co-opted into partnering with a secret unit of the FBI, Softly struggles to understand how many games are being played and by whom. Is he master of his fate or has he been the unwitting agent of friends and foe? A thrilling ride from start to spine-tingling finish.