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The Big Law

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When former cop Phil Broker's naïve ex-wife, Caren, blows the whistle on her feckless second husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop making a cool $2 million moonlighting for the Chicago mob, she unwittingly signs her own death warrant. Unwisely for Caren, she not only shared her troubles with Broker, she also told Tom James, a reporter with fantasies of pulling off the perfect crime. Inspired by the $2 million payoff she entrusted to his safekeeping, Tom kills Caren in a brilliant frame-up that leaves her crooked cop-husband to take the fall.

Covering all the angles, Tom runs to the FBI — "the Big Law" — and wangles a new life in the Witness Protection Program. But Tom's perfect plan doesn't count on Broker. Hard-edged and relentless, Broker smells a rat and is determined to set things right. But to succeed, he's got to locate Tom — a clever man with a new identity, a suitcase full of cash, and the Big Law on his side.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 4, 1999
      Continuing the saga of loner ex-cop Phil Broker from The Price of Blood, Logan, a rising new maestro of suspense, explores the inner workings of the Federal Witness Protection Program in this crackerjack new spellbinder featuring dirty money, compulsion and revenge. When St. Paul, Minn., fading star reporter Tom James, a down-on-his-luck gambler, receives an anonymous tip that once-charismatic cop Keith Angland is on the take with the mob, the trail leads James to Angland's abused wife, Caren, who has decided to seek witness protection and turn over her husband's ill-gotten stash of $2 million in big bills and an incriminating videotape. (Caren is also Broker's ex.) While driving Caren to Broker's backwoods retreat, James persuades her to hide the tape and cash as he obsesses on stealing the loot for himself. An ensuing dispute with Angland at Broker's cabin provides James the opportunity to commit a convenient murder. Accusing Angland of the deed, James demands that the feds give him a new identity in exchange for the tape. The enthralling yarn becomes a cat-and-mouse game as Broker tries to locate James. Virtually seamless, the prose mesmerizes with intelligent contrasts between the monastic single-father hero and the obsessive-compulsive villain. The ingenious plot and cast of well-fleshed-out characters--including a Russian Mafia czar and a sexy editor--continue to mark Logan as a standout in the genre.

    • Booklist

      November 15, 1998
      Chuck Logan lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, and writes about an ex-cop who used to live and work in St. Paul. Logan's jaded protagonist is Phil Broker, who now lives further north, taking care of his infant daughter while his soldier wife serves in Bosnia. The fun begins when the St. Paul FBI office receives an informant's tongue in the mail, and Broker's ex-wife--now married to a crooked cop--calls on him for help. Enter a reporter who is a petty thief with delusions of grandeur, a mixture of Mafia and Russian thugs, and a trail of violence that goes all the way from Minnesota to San Francisco, and you have an exciting tale well told. Logan also gives readers a fascinating look deep inside the government's well-publicized but less well understood witness-protection program and an interesting tour of a new maximum-security prison he colorfully describes as a "seasonless storage locker for hazardous waste." The title, incidentally, refers to the name FBI people use for the Bureau itself. ((Reviewed November 15, 1998))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1998, American Library Association.)

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