The Forza Trap

Carver Bascombe Mysteries #2

by Kenn Davis

Talent and money, artists and patrons, agents and impresarios, music and drama - it was all coming together in the glittering gala opening of the Golden Gate Opera house. Or it was until rehearsals became tryouts for murder. Carver Bascombe was a private eye who did everything with style, and playing bodyguard to a sexy opera star was his ikea of work. But style wasn't going to be enough to keep this job from being his swan song as a sex-crazed assassin and a bizarre terrorist cult invisibly orchestrate a deadly drama. The houselights dim, the overture begins, the curtain rises, as Bascombe blasts his way through a violent libretto of vengeance, deceit, and betrayal to an explosive backstage finale where he has the solo.

255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1979

About the author

Kenn Davis, born Kenneth Allan Schmoker, was a surrealist painter and mystery novelist associated with the Beat Generation writers and artists in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s. He spent 20 years working for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was a frequent collaborator with John Stanley and Richard Brautigan. He was twice nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, in 1977 for The Dark Side, and in 1985 for Words Can Kill.

Reviews

[Marty Harnish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good outweighs the not-so-good. Surprised nobody else has read/rated/reviewed.