Richard Arthur Newberry
CHRISTIAN ST. JOHN – THE PROBLEM SOLVER
By
Rick Newberry
Being an avid reader of thrillers from James Bond when I was young, to The Lincoln Lawyer, and lately Harry Bosch, I have always enjoyed the genre. Being a longtime resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, I picture CHRISTIAN ST. JOHN as an epic figure in this exciting and dynamic city, fighting crime and solving problems. In fact, I sometimes imagine Bosch, Bond, and St. John sharing drinks together in The Foundation Room, high atop the Mandalay Bay Resort, comparing notes on their latest adventures.
In this first installment of The Problem Solver series, St. John must foil a blackmail plot that threatens to bring Las Vegas to its knees. From the moment the woman with the ghost eyes walks into Christian St. John’s office, he knows all bets are off. Suspecting foul play in her uncle’s suicide, she hires St. John to discover the truth, a truth that soon draws him into a high stakes game of extortion, torture, and murder.
During the investigation, St. John discovers photographs of the city’s most prominent politicians, business owners, and justice officials engaged in sexually explicit acts. These photos are in the hands of a sociopathic pedophile, a giant of a man with a violent past, and a shadowy figure known only as “the doctor.” Their plan is to auction off the lot to the highest bidder in what they call The Auction of The Century. After being beaten, tortured, and left for dead by these three desperate men, St. John must find a way to infiltrate the auction and put an end to the plot.
As owner of Confidential Research, St. John relies on his talented associates, the feminine Daniela Gamble, the capable Riley Thompson, and his friends, a casino owner nicknamed The Turk, and Nacho, a lieutenant in a Mexican cartel, to help solve the most unusual cases in Sin City. On this case, one of them will not survive.
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