A special U.S. task force battles con artists, schemers of all sorts, and government bumblers as they attempt to launch a sting operation against several Florida banks suspected of laundering drug money...
First edition. The author was at the time 1978 chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Son of Serbian immigrants works at summer resort in California in 1941, becomes involved with various people in various ways, and moves on, perhaps to better things...