Böcker av Jim Flynn

Richard Hayes, in his will, left his entire estate to New Dawn Canine Rescue, a non-profit started by him whose mission is to rescue abused and neglected dogs out of Midwest puppy mills. But, when Hayes died, there was little left of his estate. That's because a caregiver, Charlotte Duprey, had stolen $750,000 out of Hayes's checking account at RMC Bank. Since Duprey had changed her name and fled the country, trying to recover the stolen money from her was futile. However, Jack McConnell, a Colorado Springs nuts and bolts trial lawyer, thought RMC Bank should be liable for the theft. So, with Hayes's estate as his client, McConnell asserted a claim against the bank. The bank denied the claim and threatened retaliation, leading to a lawsuit and a multi-day jury trial in the El Paso County, Colorado, District Court.

The fraud was very clever. A counterfeit cashiers check for $4.8 million looking for all the world like the real thing, with coding designed to cause the check to hang up in the Federal Reserve's check clearing system long enough for the thieves to wire transfer real money to offshore banks. Jack McConnell, a fifty-six year old Colorado Springs lawyer who'd rather be fly fishing in the rivers and lakes of Colorado than practicing law, is called upon by longtime client, Front Street Bank, to find the thieves and put the money back in its customer's account before the bank is sued or, worse, shut down by the FDIC. McConnell is assisted in this enterprise by Veronica Stailey, a computer expert with the Fed who is also the first woman McConnell has let into his life since a painful divorce of many years ago. Joining the team is a private investigator known in the trade only as Ed and whose source of training is not a permitted subject of inquiry. McConnell, Stailey and Ed find themselves on the trail of a money-laundering outfit in San Francisco getting help from an employee at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank who is being blackmailed into providing highly confidential information about the Fed's check clearing and wire transfer systems.