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Identity Murder
Kerry Grant, is the computer guru of
Chicago Police Department’s Twenty-third District.
She
and her partner, Mike Sullivan, work fraud and internet crime.
Vincent and Maxwell Bates are already involved in cyber crime in
their district. One swindle the brothers run is a life insurance
scam that has made them millions.
Seventy-eight-year-old Veronica Cooke finds herself caught in
their fraud which Kerry and Mike explain when they come to
arrest her. Since her son collected her half million-dollar
policy and she isn’t dead, the
insurance company wants to press charges. Veronica doesn’t have
a son and she doesn't think she's dead. They realize it's a scam.
Mike and Kerry ask her if she
had given anyone personal information and she recalls filling
out forms at the ER. The detectives decide to talk to George
Barkley, the insurance agent who becomes a suspect.
Veronica tells her
next-door-neighbor, court clerk, Jennifer Kincaid about the
police showing up at her door. She hands Jenny Kerry and Mike’s
cards and Jen's sure Kerry is her childhood friend. After
twenty-five years, the women reunite.
Kerry’s commanding
officer, Lieutenant Romero, volunteers her for a covert
operation with the mob.
Kerry teaches the
eager cyber gangsters some sophisticated tricks while checking out their involvement in online crime. She
meets Marty Girard, an FBI agent who has been undercover with
the mob for years. Kerry becomes aware of feelings she didn’t
think her heart would allow, even though she knows their
relationship ends with the job.
After a short time
in the mob’s computer center, Kerry is a trusted expert, until
one of the boys discovers she has been spying on them. Before
she can reach for her weapon, she faces the barrel end of a gun,
in the hand of a man she doesn’t want to love.
Marty Girard shows
up at Jenny’s apartment with a laptop computer from the Agency.
He is there to show Kerry what she needs to do to finish her
work, and to see her one more time.
Kerry starts a romantic
relationship, renews a friendship from a life-time ago, and
deals with her own demons, while she continues to chase virtual
criminals who fire real bullets.
The last six pages of
Identity Murder contain real information on the dangers that
lurk on the World Wide Web. There's information on what you can do
to prevent being a victim, and what you should do if you are. If
you're unable to pick up a copy of the book, that information is
available here.
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ISBN-13:978-0-9723541-3-4 Bast Press Trade Paperback 256 pages
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