The Esmeralda Goodbye

<p>1955. In the sleepy seaside town of La Jolla CA rookie cop Jake Stirling saves the life of infamous crime writer Raymond Chandler earning the respect of his hard-nosed captain Wade Lennox who served with Jake's father a police detective whose suicide two years earlier shocked the town and shattered Jake's family.</p><p> </p><p>Jake gets called to the Hotel Del Charro a luxury hideaway for the rich and famous. Budding starlet Zsa Zsa Gabor's diamond necklace has been stolen. She and other hotel guests-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover political wheeler-dealer Artie Corcoran and mob boss Meyer Lansky press their own cryptic agendas while Raymond Chandler provokes outrage with drunken allegations of police corruption. When a local hoodlum is murdered Captain Lennox takes Jake into his confidence demanding loyalty.</p><p> </p><p>More killings follow as Jake finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that could change the course of American history. Can he clear his father's name and save those he loves from the cold-blooded brutality of desperate and powerful men?</p><p> </p>