Contract Null and Void

DKA File #5

by Joe Gores

Their job is to bring back the goods bought but not paid for by San Francisco's deadbeats. But the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates have their own problems. Boss man Dan Kearny has been bounced by his wife. Bart Heslip is wearing leather in the Tenderloin, and Ballard has finally met a woman who's his match.

Just when things couldn't get tougher, four DKA cases come together - with a bang. Shotguns, politics and a multimillion-dollar brawl between two high-tech wizards open up bad blood on the streets, exposing a plot to punch DKA's ticket for good.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

Joe Gores (1931-2011) was the author of the acclaimed DKA series of street-level crime and detection, as well as the stunning suspense novels Dead Man and Menaced Assassin.

He served in the U.S. Army - writing biographies of generals at the Pentagon - was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford, and spent twelve years as a San Francisco private investigator. The author of dozens of novels, screenplays, and television scripts, he won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards and Japan's Maltese Falcon Award.

Reviews

[Ward]

3 stars. DKA adds body-guard service protecting a software developer under threat prior to inking his IT sales contract. DKA detectives still doing repossessions and cases involve a inion local, politician, jazz musician, and truck driver. This is a bit wild and wacky.

[Moe]

Great

[Kate Blumenthal]

Surprisingly, I liked it. A bit raw in places;lots of strange but sympathetic characters; several plot lines that paralleled and/or intersected in interesting ways.