The Forza Trap

Talent and money, artists and patrons, agents and impresarios, music and drama - it was all coming together in the glittering gala opening of the Golden Gate Opera House. Or it was until rehearsals became tryouts for murder. Carver Bascombe was a private eye who did everything with style, and playing bodyguard to a sexy opera star was his idea of work. But style wasn't going to be enough to keep this job from being his swan song as a sex-crazed assassin and a bizarre terrorist cult invisibly orchestrate a deadly drama. The houselights dim, the overture begins, the curtain rises, as Bascombe blasts his way through a violent libretto of vengeance, deceit, and betrayal to an explosive backstage finale where he has the solo.