Contract Null and Void (Dka File Novel)

Joe Gores is the master of a rare and precious commodity, the screwball crime caper that is funny enough and intelligent enough to provoke both laughter and mystery. In Contract Null & Void, he offers up Daniel Kearney, who runs an outfit that provides experts at "tracing skips, repo'ing cars, finding embezzlers and serving subpoenas"; the brilliant Giselle, who is confined to a mansion in Marin County where she is charged with protecting a dimwitted computer genius whose life is in danger; and Larry Ballard, who has found himself in the midst of "something big and rotten" in a union local at a San Francisco hotel.