Five stars is insufficient praise for this mystery thriller from Benjamin
Schutz. Leo Haggerty is the star of Schutz' six-book mystery series, a
private eye in the D.C. area, running a respectable agency, not some
down-on-his-luck has-been. This is an underrated series and deserves
far more attention and acclaim than it has gotten. It's unfortunate
Schutz didn't see fit to give us more money of these.

This is primarily a straight-ahead thriller with Haggerty on the run
from a psychopathic killer who has invaded his world in a rather
unforgettable fashion and ripped Haggerty's life to bits. As the reader,
it was a very easy to be drawn in and get emotionally swept up in the
horror of what's done to Haggerty and the people around him. Much of
the story is a sort of cat and mouse game of whether Haggerty can
figure out what's going on before the psychopath gets what he wants
from Haggerty.

The story is populated with bail bondsmen, Neo-Nazi skinheads, and
computer geeks.
Hard to put down -
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