Death Angel — C.C. Risenhoover

When a high school football player dies mysteriously as a result of an unusual drug concoction, small town authorities are quick to call it an accident or suicide. But the boy's father, who years earlier was rescued by McCall from a Central American prison camp, smells a rat and asks the former rogue CIA operative for help. Before McCall can turn over the first rock the father is found hanging at the end of a rope, his death also ruled a suicide.

McCall, now an investigative reporter with an appetite for justice that sometimes triggers vigilantism, isn't buying the party line. He knows it is murder most foul.

Strange and beautiful women, crooked cops, a big-time crime boss living in a small town, weird kids, a Nicaraguan hit man, a sleazy congressman and a host of other people working both sides of the street, combine to make the trail to the killer a maze of inconsistencies.

The bodies start piling up â€" and McCall is forced to use fists and firearms, as well as his intellect, to bring some semblance of justice to a town that has sold its soul.