Jack Brady, PI

"Another floater surfaced in the Rio Grande last night. It was the headline story on the all-news radio station I listen to on the way to work. Authorities on either side pull twenty to thirty bodies out of the Rio each year, some accidental drownings, some deliberate. What made this one unusual was the fact that he had identification - and money." Human smuggling constitutes one of the less savory aspects of Brady Investigation's case load. Jack Brady, former SEAL and current PI in El Paso, Texas, would rather not get involved, but he's always been a sucker for a sob-story.

"They will kill him. You must find him for me." Those were the words that got me into this mess. They had been uttered by Felina Ochoa, a young woman just barely old enough to work in Rosa's Bar on San Antonio Street in downtown El Paso. Jack Brady, ex-SEAL and current PI in El Paso, Texas, has a weakness for sob stories that is exceeded only by his weakness for good-looking women. When Felina Ochoa comes into his office to hire Jack to protect her boyfriend, Oscar, he accepts the job, against his better judgement. But he has to find Oscar first. Can he find Felina's boyfriend and keep him from succumbing to the police ley de fugo, or is Oscar going to be another name on the list of people Jack couldn't save?

This time El Paso PI Jack Brady doesn't have to find anything or anyone. He's been hired by an insurance company to exchange a cash payout for a half-million-dollar stolen car. Easy money! Until somebody gets killed.

El Paso PI, Jack Brady, had done many odd things during his careers as a Navy SEAL, Border Patrol agent, and private investigator, but babysitting a graveyard - at night - was a new one. Someone had been desecrating graves in El Paso's oldest graveyard, and the head of the Historical Preservation Committee wanted it stopped. It could be kids - or it could be something much more dangerous.