Shell games
Subtitle: a John Marquez crime novel
By: Kirk Russell.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: California. Dept. of Fish and Game -- Fiction; Government investigators -- Fiction; Abalone fisheries -- Fiction; Smuggling -- Fiction; Marquez, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; California -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez--a former DEA agent and now head of the special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game--discovers that his own life is in danger. Kline, a vicious drug smuggler turned abalone poacher, has a vendetta against Marquez.