Cordite Wine

Blackmail, double-crosses, and retribution abound in Cordite Wine, the second book in Richard Helms? exciting Eamon Gold series.Asa Corona, heir to a Napa Valley winery fortune, comes to Eamon Gold to stop an extortionist. Corona has been hanging out at gay bathhouses in the San Francisco area, and someone has taken compromising pictures of him. He paid them off once, but now they want more money.Gold agrees to help find the blackmailers, but his search quickly becomes grisly when a prime suspect is found murdered, and his client disappears.In his search for the killers and his missing client, Gold runs across closeted television stars, a gay linebacker, frightened politicians, and a mobster who doesn't want his life examined too closely ? and is willing to kill to make that happen.Retired forensic psychologist and two-time Shamus Award Nominee Richard Helms once again plumbs the depths of human frailty and corruption, to produce the latest in his long string of tightly-packed hardboiled, street-savvy tales, with Cordite Wine.Helms, Richard is the author of 'Cordite Wine ' with ISBN 9780971015968 and ISBN 0971015961.