Bad Money

by Ed Gorman

Book Overview

Secret Service Agent Dev Mallory has been hand-picked by the President to shut down a counterfeiting scheme before it floods the West with funny money and collapses the United States economy. But when the past catches up with Dev, the cost of solving this case could include his own life.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425203913
• ISBN13: 9780425203910
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Neo-Western with original character

Dev Mallory, an agent with a secret branch of the President's Secret Service, in August 1887 is dispatched to Denver. An employee of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has disappeared and with him the knowledge to create metal plates and produce fake C-notes. Mallory's mission is to locate the plates and shut down the counterfeiters. If you grew up reading westerns (Brand, Grey, L'Amour, Shirreffs) as I did, then you can appreciate a new title. For one thing, this tale is set in Denver, still a rough frontier town, but it's also a bustling city, replete with its street gangs, sanitation problems, and big hotels. Dev is a likeable protagonist, more fond of rapturous ladies than strong drink. The "mystery within the mystery" finds the counterfeit gang members getting murdered. Puckish humor includes a houseful of kittens. As always, the prose is muscular and elegant. Enjoy it all.