Chasing Clay: 3 (DeWitt Agency Files)

Its pure white deep blue... and dirty all over.Nam Ton ware - centuries-old ceramics from Southeast Asias Golden Triangle - captivated the DeWitt Agencys tech-tycoon client. Now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on his case for buying smuggled antiquities. To get immunity hes hired the agency to run an off-books investigation into Nam Tons source.Disgraced ex-L.A. gallerist and ex-con Matt Friedrich is in charge. If he finishes within sixty days hell earn an early end to his probation. If he doesnt he may go back to prison for bending the federal criminal code into a pretzel.Soon enough Matts in San Francisco getting tight with Savannah the clients beautiful art advisor to scam his way into the smuggling operation. As the burglary blackmail tax evasion and customs fraud piles up and Matt finds himself sandwiched in a federal turf war he realizes hes in way over his head with no good way out. And thats before he ends up in a real live jungle.Matts dealing with a type of art he knows nothing about from an area hes seen only in war movies. Now the fate of some trafficked pottery may decide whether Matt gets his freedom... or spends a long stretch in a concrete cell.