However, the up-and-coming mob lieutenant tasked with killing Hatch and Stoltz left behind evidence at the crime scene and was caught on video at a nearby convenience store. This escalation convinces the director of the BJC, Michael Geismar, to ask for help from the FBI. Hatch is killed and Stoltz is badly injured. Driving away from the uneventful meeting, the duo are deliberately struck head-on by a truck.
Stoltz and Hatch are lured to a remote part of the Tappacola reservation by a tribal member claiming to be a source. When Stoltz and Hatch begin an investigation, the leader of the Coast Mafia, Vonn Dubose, decides to retaliate. Mix has been given this information by an intermediary representing an unknown " mole" close to McDover. In addition, the Coast Mafia has staged the murder of Son Razko, a prominent anti-casino member of the Tappacola Nation, and McDover has falsely convicted his right-hand man, Junior Mace, of the crime. Aside from skimming money from the casino, the Coast Mafia has also been responsible for many nearby real estate developments, with any legal problems smoothed over by McDover in exchange for cash payments and condominiums. Over the course of almost two decades, McDover has aided the local Coast Mafia in their scheme to build a casino in partnership with the Tappacola Indian Nation. Mix reveals that the corrupt judge is Claudia McDover of Florida's 24th Circuit. The source is revealed to be a disgraced lawyer from Pensacola named Ramsey Mix.
Investigator Lacy Stoltz is assigned to the case, and takes her sometime-partner Hugo Hatch with her to St. The (fictional) Tappacola Nation, a small Native American tribe located in the northern part of Florida, starts a casino in their reservation, giving the tribe members an unprecedented economic affluence and a measure of compensation for their sufferings during the centuries of European settlement, but also opening wide the potential for corruption and involvement with organized crime, up to and including outright murder.Ī mysterious source contacts the (fictional) Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, or BJC, promising information that will reveal the identity and crimes of the most corrupt judge in U.S. The plot centers on the legal and moral problems involved in Native American gaming. It is a legal thriller about Florida Board on Judicial Conduct investigator Lacy Stoltz. It was released in hardcover, large print paperback, e-book, compact disc audiobook and downloadable audiobook on October 25, 2016. The Whistler is a novel written by American author John Grisham.
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