The granddaughter of an obscenely rich grand political manipulator, who happens to be not a fan of "That Fuckin' McKenzie", asks McKenzie to find her boyfriend who has taken his boat & disappeared.

As it turns out there are some very ugly & dangerous people looking for him as well and as McKenzie discovers the boyfriend is not who his girlfriend, her family, & new friends know him as.

The book definitely held my interest, but the violence towards the women in the book made me take off a star. ( )

From Amazon:

Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus—a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family’s connections, it’s McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family—again—Mac McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Navarre. What he finds, though, is a man who appears to be a ghost.

The house—mansion, really—he told Riley he owned is actually a rental, barely lived in and practically devoid of personal effects. The restaurant he claimed to own is owned by another and Navarre merely an investor. He apparently has no friends, no traceable past, and McKenzie isn't the only one looking for him. Whoever Juan Carlos Navarre is and wherever he’s gone, the one thing that is clear is that he’s trouble, and is perhaps someone—as Riley’s family makes clear—better out of the picture.

My Thoughts:

The continuing saga of Rushmore McKenzie, retired cop and multi-million dollar "do-gooder" who takes on another caper to save a damsel in distress. This one is a bit of a disappointment when compared to Housewright’s previous novels on the exploits of McKenzie, still it has a good plot and moves along well and will be an enjoyable read for Housewright fans.
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