[Head Lock: A Tom Bethany Mystery] [Author: Doolittle, Jerome] [December, 2000]

Tom Bethany #4

by Jerome Doolittle

Washington private investigator Tom Bethany and his girlfriend, married lawyer Hope Edwards, uncover the scandalous life of a television evangelist

Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

#4 in the Tom Bethany series. Tom is an-ex college wrestler, very intelligent, a surreptitious part time Harvard student, and a knight-errant/detective as the need arises.

Tom Bethany's girlfriend Hope has an abortion and the clinic is put under siege by a fanatic group led by Senatorial candidate Reverend Howard Orrin. The siege and the attendant publicity leads to the death of an unstable young girl. Tom makes it his business for Orrin to pay.