By Reason of Privilege

<p>When nine-year-old Tom��s Col��n is run over by the drunken son of a wealthy businessman police uncover evidence of an international heroin-smuggling operation that is responsible for several murders. </p><p>The young victim's uncle Detective Luis Ortiz heads up an investigation that begins as a slam-dunk arrest. But a slick influential attorney convinces the State Attorney's Office that the evidence is circumstantial and insufficient to secure a conviction and the charges are dropped. </p><p>Determined to gather concrete proof Ortiz continues the case. He soon meets Kathryn DiAgostino a forensics investigator who stirs up passion in him that he thought had died with his previous marriage.</p><p>It's up to Ortiz and his fellow law enforcement officials to sift through a superficial shallow world of privileged thugs in their effort to put a stop to a string of heinous crimes. As they do so however treachery and deceit spread like a cancer among business associates friends and lovers. They all seem to have the same goal: to get cash-and as much of it as possible.</p><p>Follow the money trail and Ortiz's relentless pursuit of justice in <I>By Reason of Privilege</I>.</p>