The Hollow Ledger

Private investigator Saul Dreyer has spent years letting the phone ring , until a gravel-voiced man in a green coat stops being a former caller and becomes a client. Rondo Pell believes his late father's off-the-books accountancy hides a fortune that has been quietly siphoned, and he needs someone stubborn enough to follow the paper trail into places it was never meant to go. What Saul finds is a ledger with holes punched clean through it. Money routed through a charitable foundation that shares a name with a dead man's signature. A reclusive figure known only as the Thin Man, orchestrating from behind an attorney's letterhead. A dead informant whose death certificate was filed before the body was cold. And a string of witnesses , a Brooklyn print shop owner, a dog walker, a Publix clerk, a retired transit cop , each carrying a fragment of a story no one wants read out loud. As the case bleeds into a federal inquiry and an investigative reporter closes in, Saul must choose between taking a payout and walking away, or pulling one more thread on a cover-up years in the making. Every answer earns him a new enemy. Every new enemy already knows where he lives. Some ledgers balance. This one was designed to destroy anyone who tries.