Charles Carr is a relentless, hardboiled Treasury Agent with a grim mission. A young agent gets violently gunned down during an undercover operation, and it's Carr's job to hunt down the counterfeiter who pulled the trigger. From the seamy sunset Strip to Chinatown's shadowy underworld, from a daring plot to steal counterfeit money from counterfeiters themselves, to facing brutal blood-drenched confrontations, Carr will stop at nothing to crack the depraved scheme that took his friend's life.

Charlie Carr is Petievich's brilliant creation - a bullish Treasury Agent in the street-smart, sad-eyed tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. In One-Shot Deal, Carr rips the lid off an intricate scheme to print ten million in U.S. Treasury notes on stolen government security paper - a scam that begins in the inner sanctum of the U.S. Mint and ends in a pool of blood beneath the smoking barrel of Carr's .357 magnum.

US Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Detective Travis Bailey of the L.A. police - a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women - who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. Unwittingly, they are involved in a phony stake-out in which Kelly is seriously wounded. Deeply suspicious and determined to avenge his partner, Carr puts his life and career on the line in order to build a case against Bailey, and sets out to prove that he is the mastermind behind a series of robberies from the area's wealthy residents. Carr's mission draws him into the depths of moneyed Beverly Hills, as well as into the underworld of have-nots, hungry for a piece of the Rolls-Royce action. TO DIE IN BEVERLY HILLS is a masterly, original and harrowing thriller. Gerald Petievich once again successfully demonstrates both his talent for convincing characterization and his inside knowledge of the U.S. Secret Service.

Treasury Agent Charles Carr braves a matrix of drugs, double-dealing, and murder as he tracks a counterfeiter-on-the-run who beds, then brutally murders, one of Carr's informants