#3 in Eskin's Marko Zorn mystery series based in Washington DC
This has an interesting twist right from the start. A member of the Big Pharma club is bringing a new product to market. A fentanyl competitor that is far more potent. Problem is that the product has been leaked and is showing up on the streets before anyone really knows or understands it. A couple brothers run the pharma company and they are ruthless when it comes to their products and bottom line.
Marko learns of this new drug when he is contacted by a DC underworld boss who wants the drug off the street (because it kills thereby cutting into their local sales and profits on less deadly addictive drugs).
And therein lies the twist. Marko has roughly three ‘bosses’ on his butt for different reasons. The cops (of course), the local gang street marketeers, and the Pharma boys. And a key to the whole thing might be connected to a decades-old art theft.
Now I like Eskin/Zorn so far. DC-based (stomping grounds of my youth), clever and believable characters all wrapped up in a plot that just could happen.
And its an Oceanview Publishing product, a quality source for well-prepared mysteries. Can’t beat it.
Thanks to Netgalley for the advance reviewer copy.
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