Gerald Petievich: 9 books

Charlie Carr is Petievich's brilliant creation - a bullish Treasury Agent in the street-smart sad-eyed tradition of Raymond Chandler. Carr rips the lid off an intricate scheme to print ten million in US Treasury notes on stolen government security paper - a scam that begins in the inner sanctum of the US Mint and ends in a pool of blood beneath the smoking barrel of Carr's .357 magnum

Shakedown explores the sinister underworld of Las Vegas, where prostitutes, informers, hitmen and hustlers mix in the neon glare. The story is told from the point of view of both a con-man/shakedown artist and an FBI agent intent on putting away a mob kingpin whose path both characters cross. Petievich, a former secret service agent, brings the genuine, gritty authority of an insider.

Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Det Travis Bailey of the LA police a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. They become involved in a phony stake out and...

Charlie Carr is a ruthless T-man and hard nosed detective in the gutsy, no-nonesense tradition of Hammett and Chandler. Carr is hot on the trail of two thugs who have gunned down a young under cover agent - a torturous trail that will lead from the smoke-filled hangouts of sordid Chinatown, to a brutal...

Two U.S. Treasury agents, partners and antagonists, are drawn into a matrix of violence and corruption, southern California-style, that becomes a journey through a sunlit hell - at the end of which they become experts on the thin line between what it takes to live - and die - in L.A.

A White House Secret Service agent has been blown away by a masked gunman. A neo-Nazi group has taken credit, but Special Agent Pete Garrison fears it's more than a warning shot delivered by extremists. An informant claims the group has one of its own in the W.H. A blackmailer has photos of Garrison...

A suicide is discovered in a top-secret White House file room. Secret Service agent Jack Powers is assigned to keep the brewing crisis from the press. But death is just the tip of the iceberg--espionage is suspected of a beautiful woman who may be the President's mistress. Suddenly, Powers finds himself...

Detective Sergeant Jose Stepanovich and his elite tactical team were the toughest cops in the Los Angeles police force, handed the toughest jobs, like going up against the city's most vicious criminal element - the street gangs of East L.A. But somewhere along the lines the cops broke a few rules,...

T-Man Charles Carr depends heavily on informants in his pursuit of pushers, passers and makers of counterfeit "paper." Informants are as much a part of the seamy, violent L.A. underworld as are the crooks they inform on, and they are crucial to Carr's effort to track down Paul LaMonica,...