Ricochet

Nathaniel Longfellow Keller, haunted Viet Nam Vet, recent divoice, recovering drulnk and the state bar's lead prosecutor, is handed the gighest profile case of his young career. He must disbar Edgar McKenzie, a South Texas District attorney and a political kingpin who enjoys the protection of a Mexican drug cartel. McKenzie has been taped by the F.B.I. soliciting capital murder. He has prevailed in both the federal and state criminal prosecutions as well as a civil suit to remove him from office. Is he above the law? Is he to suffer no consequences for his actions? It is up to Nate.Nate after a lenghty trial, bomb scares, death treats, break-ins, the churlish behavior of McKenzie's attorneys and overt hostility of the local judiciary, disbars Edgar McKenzie. Nate returns to Austin but at the request of the F.B.I. soon returns to the valley when the target of McKenzie's solicitation is in fact, murdered. McKenzie is charged with the crime and will only talk to Nate. Nate solves the murder and McKenzie is then murdered on the order of ElTigre, the cartel's sub-boss, in South Texas. In a deadly confrontation , Nate ki..s the assassin and is then targeted for rrvenge by the cartel. Nate survives and ambush only to have his wife abducted. Nate must track El Tigre from Reynosa to Juarez, Mexico, to save his wife and to bring El Tigre to account.