Friendly Enterprise

Friendly Enterprise a fast paced novel about the efforts of a Black neophyte US Attorney in the RICO Division of the Department of Justice in Washington D. C. who has been assigned a case investigating and ultimately indicting some of Chicago's elite in a massive insurance scam involving the local transit district. Never having been the first chair in any prosecution he is selected because his superiors believe that the case is a powder keg and could explode embarrassing all involved. Dispatched to Chicago he quickly realizes that the cursory investigation that has taken place so far is woefully inadequate. In seeking help from the local US Attorney in Cook County he runs into a stonewall because unbeknownst to him the US Attorney is close to the alleged principals of the multi-million dollar insurance scam. His efforts are further hampered not only due to his complete inexperience but he now has to cope with an Assistant US Attorney who has been assigned to him (really at the behest of her boss to spy and report back on any progress) in lieu of investigative help. Meanwhile on the other side of town the criminal principals are concerned that Washington has taken an interest in their friendly enterprise. The US Attorney has briefed them on what Washington is doing and what they can expect from David Jason the name of the newly arrived attorney who coincidentally grew up in the Windy City. All are satisfied except the most nefarious of the group and he sets out to further hinder the investigation by hiring murderous thugs to silence the lone inside man at the transit agency who could identify him. Jason gains an unexpected ally in the Assistant US Attorney who is not only beautiful but also very eager to cash in her ticket for professional upward mobility. Together they begin to piece together sketches of the principals which only further antagonize the murderous member of the elite group. Again enlisting the support of his murder-for-hire henchme