The only mention he gets in the book is that Carmel is going over his case, working out a way to impeach the evidence. It's brought up twice, and only as a a bit of throwaway background. It's a bit strange, but it works. And he thought it'd be amusing, so that ended up becoming a semi-major thread for Easy Prey . 12 Rashid al-Balah makes threats against Trick Bentoin.
Trick goes to Panama for some high-stakes card game.
He tells nobody , and it's assumed that Rashid had killed him, although nobody really knows. Rashid is arrested for murder, but there's no body. Rashid gets Carmel as a lawyer, and Carmel's a good lawyer. In this book, we see her working out how to impeach the evidence. Trick gets back from Panama.