California Fire and Life

Greed, Deceit and Death Jack Wade is the best arson investigator California Fire & Life Mutual has ever had. He knows fire, can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. Fires talk to him, tell him how they started, what they did.

Pamela Bale has died in a fire at her home, and Wade is sent to investigate the unusual claim her husband has filed on the very morning her body is found in the rubble. The tracks of the fire that killed Pamela Vale tell Jack Wade that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule (You don't get involved"), plunges into the case and very quickly discovers he's in over his head; the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, pervasive corruption at California F&L...

Now his expert knowledge, defiant integrity and outrageous behaviour may be the only things that can keep the investigation from being snuffed out, and keep him alive.