Franklin Stacks

The Bump-Off Grind Franklin Stacks

Sex and Money. Two things that bring pleasure. Each can cost your life. PI Malik Fredricks preferred the nickname Rick. And to stay alive. The oddssaid he would get only one of the two. Parents hired him to find their daughter, Gina. He did, but not where they wanted. The club where she danced was so seedy it didn't have a name. People called it the Red Dancer from the titillatingneon sign outside. Inside, living strippers pleased gawkers and might do more to make them glow, for a price. But some dancers disappeared. So did Gina. She vanished into a clandestine world of prostitution and lethal encounters. Rick meets a mercenary crew at personal expense. Why are special operatorsfor hire interested in a missing stripper?Rick discovers a high-priced and hidden pleasure palace. Its mysterious madam holds a secret that threatens her life and every young woman she employs. An international financial crisis colors the backdrop, not with neon red but a bloody past. Is it related to vanished women a world away?The case intensifies and dangers rise. Rick's boss leads a well-armed unit of bounty hunters. Rick sees them as protection from the mercenaries, but someone manipulates the police against Rick and tries to force the bounty hunters into an explosive confrontation. Rick searched for a missing woman. He found a shadowed world of carnal pleasures and violent clashes. The case threatens the lives of everyone around Rick. Including his own.