Fatal Conceit

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A new PI joins an eminent list, bursting with humor, pugnacity, and a leaky moralcode, bent on one-upping San Francisco's finest while wooing a prosecutor turned lover.He muddles through his own hubris and missteps, leaving a trail of bodies andrecrimination. A talented investigator booted from the police force-for knocking askinhead comatose and allegedly battering a girlfriend-Beaupre radiates confidencetinged with arrogance, for which innocents pay dearly. Hired to find the killer in a moldydouble murder, he sniffs out a drug trail, misreads a string of homicides, and not until heand a computer hacker sidekick track down a fugitive in Asia does the scope of a vastcriminal drug and money-laundering conspiracy reveal itself.