Escape Clause
James O. Born

First Time in Paperback

FDLE agent Bill Tasker's boss is worried about the stress Tasker's been under, but he has a solution. The governor wants somebody from the outside to take a look into an inmate homicide at Manatee Correctional Prison, and the boss figures he can do the state a favor and give Tasker a break at the same time. Some break. Turns out there's a whole lot going on at Manatee. The prison captain likes to enforce discipline by fairly unorthodox methods. The psych ward has been known to misplace a mental patient occasionally. A trustee named Luther has far more on his mind than working in the prison library-though the rods holding up the shelves do make very nice shivs. The prison inspector is carrying a number of very uninspector-like secrets. And something very bad is about to happen to Tasker's next-door neighbor.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea, after all.

Berkley (Prime Crime), March 2007
Featuring: Bill Tasker
ISBN #0425214540
336 pages Paperback
$7.99

Also by James O. Born:
Burn Zone, January 2009
Burn Zone, February 2008
Field of Fire, February 2008
Field of Fire, December 2006
Shock Wave, March 2006
Walking Money, April 2005

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