High-profile Denver criminal defense lawyer Stephen Stepper accepts a retainer from a mysterious client he has only spoken to by phone and has never met in person. When someone tries to kill Stepper, he suspects it’s his mystery client and hires solo attorney Jackie Jax to find out who he is. What follows is a edgy thriller where nothing is black and white, no one is safe and tomorrow may never come.
Jagger has written a series of terrific novels about Detective Nick Teffinger. These are fast paced thrillers and many take place in Denver. The cover art is compelling and evocative of an earlier era of racy paperback novels.
Typical of Jagger's work, there are three points of view that he alternates between. Eventually, the three stories coalesce. The writer is an attorney and many of his stories have at least one narrative following a sexy young female lawyer, which here is 29 year Jackie Jax. There's of course a serial killer and a tv reporter too.