A Rented World — Merle Temple

Readers who followed Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Captain Michael Parker in A Ghostly Shade of Pale will discover, as Michael does, that the gangsters who tried to kill him were amateurs compared to the political criminals he confronts in the unholy trinity of politics, crime, and business. Michael feels his way along in a foreign world as the lines between right and wrong and good and evil are blurred, and he must decide how far is too far to go to defeat those who use the power of the state to crush all who oppose them.