Copp for Hire Author:Don Pendleton The brazen daylight hit and run murder of a vivacious stripper leads Private Investigator Joe Copp into the rough and tumble, down-and-dirty, sleazy underbelly of Southern California and on to the deadly vice pits of Honolulu’s Chinatown. There, on the dark side of paradise, Copp takes on corrupt politicians, dirty cops, the exploitation o... more »f beautiful call girls—all ensnared in a deadly game of sex for power, pleasure and profit. “Pendleton, author of the long-running paperback Executioner series, shows in his first hardcover that hardboiled writing can be insightful as well as action-packed.”—Library Journal« less