Made In L.A. (Paperback)

Zachary Hunter's client list ranges from Zoe Horowitz, a seemingly nice Jewish girl who hires him to find her fiancée, to a Russian Mafia crime boss who runs the mob from prison. Marissa Juliette Baristono, a beautiful, award winning interior designer, has been with Hunter since back in the day, when neither of them had anything. These days they share their lives with Owen, an Irish Wolfhound weighing something north of 150 pounds. An elephant tusk, long an urban legend, but which, if it actually existed, would command a fortune on the illicit art market because of the perfectly executed erotic carvings rumored to be covering it, suddenly surfaces. It is being smuggled into the U.S. in a Mexican cartel's van. The van gets into an accident, and one of the cartel's guards steals the tusk in the ensuing confusion. The thief cuts a separate deal with two rival mob bosses for the sale of the same tusk, virtually guaranteeing that one of them will think he's been cheated and will come after him. Desperate, he hires Hunter to get the tusk to one boss and persuade the other not to kill him. It's a tough enough assignment without more, but it becomes even more complicated when Hunter learns that not only does each of the mob bosses and the cartel think the tusk belongs to them, but, for much different reasons, so does the Russian Mafia, the CIA, the FBI, and LAPD. With them involved, it's no holds barred, and anything can happen!