The Trust Factor

No Trust Among Thieves is the prequel for the Jack Diamond, PI, Mystery Adventure Series.

Jack immediately finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being followed while driving back to his Las Vegas Office from an assignment. More annoyed than concerned he finally comes into contact with his would be pursuer only to find the whole incident was not in actuality an incident at all. Except for one very important aspect; it leads to a complex case of international intrigue with potential Homeland Security consequences.

It all begins as a seemingly straightforward request by an unlikely client to help recover what he believes may be an inheritance gone missing. In addition to Homeland Security, the Las Vegas Metro Police, an Idaho District Attorney, as well as operatives and informants in Singapore and Malaysia and border crossing officers in British Columbia and the United States get involved.

Most of the principal characters readers met in the first Jack Diamond Mystery Adventure eBook, CAUTION: Tram Approaching, are introduced in No Trust Among Thieves. These include Jack’s long time friend and confidant, Lieutenant Hank Mathis. Then there is Jack’s own version of a femme fatale, Melissa Blanchard. Melissa, some twenty plus years his junior presents Jack with an ever-present emotional dilemma. In short order Melissa develops a strong professional and an intriguing personal relationship with the private detective. To go any further with that aspect of the story would be telling way too much. Besides, it’s a lot more interesting and fun to discover for yourself in the book.

What about the original perpetrator at the center of the case? It turns out he seems to have made a career playing the role of an up-standing member of the community while betraying the trust of those who trusted him the most. His misdeeds come to an abrupt end as he, naively unaware that anyone is the wiser, is suddenly interrupted as he attempts to get some rest in a motel room in the middle of Nevada.

At the end of the day, a perplexed but persevering Jack Diamond still can’t be certain of success in recovering the alleged missing inheritance. The network of pilfering money manipulators who became involved through various nefarious means are found out as one by one they discover that there is no trust among thieves and ill gotten riches driven by blind greed seldom have a pleasant ending.