Las Vegas Investigator: The Art of Violence

by Robert Wacaster

After Las Vegas Private Investigator Matt Smith's friend Robert is shot, Matt wants to know who is responsible. Starting his own investigation into his friend's shooting, Matt uncovers more than he had bargained for. Vowing he will bring his friend's shooter to justice, Matt finds himself in a world of paintings, forgeries, and ex-convicts. The real art for Matt though, is violence.

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2014

About the author

After growing up in Idaho (Chubbuck) I decided my home there was too boring and joined the United States Air Force to escape and find adventure. After my four years, two of those years overseas in Italy, I didn't really know what to do with myself. I ended up moving to Las Vegas and tried dealing blackjack and roulette (I didn't much care for the job and wouldn't recomend it to anybody). That didn't work out and after unloading trucks and stocking shelves for a few years I ended up getting a job in casino security at the fabulous Luxor hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip! I liked the job and found so much humor in it, I decided to write a book about it. Along the way working security, I met up with now close friend and co-author Paul DeGeorge. He also found large amounts of humor in the job we were doing and together we wrote "Adventures in Casino Security." From here, we continue to write and edit a few other projects and hope to have more work put out soon!

Reviews

[Steve Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

After Robert Wacaster’s recent spells in more romantic genres he returns with the tidy detective novel Las Vegas Investigator: The Art of Violence.

This time Wacaster blends the no-nonsense quick-fire sarcasm that he used in Frigate: November( to good effect ) with occasional bursts of brutality to more tender moments of his more recent romantic works.
“Look, Mrs. Baker….Ellen, I’ve got a lot on my mind at the moment, okay? I don’t really have time to be seduced today…..”

The story starts when the close friend of the private investigator Matt is suddenly found shot. After his friend slips into a coma, Matt who is more used to gathering evidence for adultery cases becomes often irrationally embroiled into what proves to become an increasingly dark and violent trail in his drive to piece together what his friend had become mixed up in and take personal revenge.
A fast moving thriller for adults. Five stars.

“The bad guys wanted a war and Matt was going to give them one.”