Dead Lawyers Don't Lie (Jake Wolfe, #1)

by Mark Nolan

Special Agent Knight was sitting at his desk in the FBI headquarters

An agent named Len Gannon was kneeling next to Congressman Daniel Anderson,

“My theory is that the suspect is a hired killer named Ivan Zhukov who works for the highest bidder, often wealthy multinational corporations and financial conglomerates.

“I believe a particular group of

rogue investors hired Zhukov to kill the inventor,” McKay said.

Jake’s media rival, Dick Arnold, was especially thrilled with this bad news.

In Brussels, Belgium, the members of the Global Assets Council

were conducting a secret meeting.

one of the castles was owned by a powerful woman in the pharm...

Brussels was home to over two thousand international corporations, scores of them owned by Council members. The secretive, private group rarely accepted new members,

and then

by invitation only. If anyone declined the invitation, they soon died in an “accident”...

bank was on the Isle of Man, off the coast of England.

No one ever showed up for work at the office.

No one ever answered the phone. All calls went to a ...

The PI had fled the scene. A week later he was walking across a street in London and was struck by a car and killed in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.

The purpose behind

the Council’s secret work was to create a private investment group. An association designed to enable its members to buy and sell at a better advantage by avoiding ...

The members considered their group to be a sovereign entity, above the law. Not liable for taxes or lawsuits, and not loyal to any nation or government. T...

The international

group’s members included dictators and other political leaders, billionaire business tycoons, arms dealers, and heads of organized crime groups.

The current leader went

by the code name “Chairman Banks.” Every member contributed millions of dollars to the Council’s trust fund each year, for use in advancing their cause around the globe.

However, the Council

did these stock trades through a Nigerian bank with a corrupt manager who accepted bribes and looked the other way.

The problem for the Council was that this new corporation was privately held, and the Council was not able to buy stock in it and profit from its success. Their plan was to put a stop to the progress of the new

wonder drug and thereby protect their investments in the competing company and continue to earn windfall profits.

The Belgian princess called the meeting to order and said, “The first order of business is a vote regarding our current chairman.”

“Stalin said that death solves all problems; no man, no problem.

I figured out why you want to tamper with what the congressman is doing in Washington. I’ll be profiting from the results in the same way you will.”

If the Council learned that he’d uncovered their secret plan, they’d have him killed immediately.

Kirby raised his eyebrows because Denton had lied about the positive ID.

Everett, the Homicide Detail squad boss,

Denton said, “You must be Dick. Wow, I found you and it’s not even dark.”

The driver realized they must have eavesdropping lasers

pointed at the car windows and could hear what was said inside. He answered in Italian, “Non parlano in...

“Katherine Anderson used to be a prosecuting attorney. She fits the attorney pattern.” “But what’s the motive behind the pattern?”

about how Katherine once put an innocent man in prison. It makes you look like an angry vigilante seeking retribution.” “It wasn’t my tablet; forensics will prove that.”

“The paintball shooting was because of me. A Secret Service agent in Washington named

Shannon McKay said it probably has something to do with my work in Congress.”

“No, McKay’s theory is that the man attacked you in hopes

of distracting me so I’d miss the next few days of work. No one has any idea why that would be so important, but the Secret Service is studying my schedule and looking for clues.”

“McKay believes it wasn’t really that cameraman. She said the person who did it was wearing a facial disguise designed to look like him. They believe it

was an international assassin.”

Katherine’s face grew pale when she heard the word assassin. “I’m a former prosecuting attorney. Does this have anything to do with...

“Yes, McKay believes it is the same person. This is a classic old-school Soviet-style disinformation strategy. Whoever hired this shooter wants people to believe...

which in this case is interfering with Congress and the US government in some way.” Daniel held up a tablet and showed Kather...

Dick A...

The story documented highlights of Katherine’s law career, and it speculated that Jake Wolfe was angry about how Katherine had once sent an innocent man ...

death row waiting to be executed for something he didn’t do. Recently he’d been exonerated by the Innocence Project using DNA evidence. While the innocent man had been locked in jail, t...