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    Stealing Ghosts: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #2
    Chasing Clay: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #3
    The Collection: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #1
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    The DeWitt Agency Files Series

    By Lance Charnes

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    About this series

    It's pure white, deep blue… and dirty all over.

     

    Nam Ton ware – centuries-old ceramics from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle – captivated the DeWitt Agency's tech-tycoon client. Now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on his case for buying smuggled antiquities. To get immunity, he's hired the agency to run an off-books investigation into Nam Ton's source.

    Disgraced ex-L.A. gallerist and ex-con Matt Friedrich is in charge. If he finishes within sixty days, he'll earn an early end to his probation. If he doesn't, he may go back to prison for bending the federal criminal code into a pretzel.

     

    Soon enough, Matt's in San Francisco, getting tight with Savannah, the client's beautiful art advisor, to scam his way into the smuggling operation. As the burglary, blackmail, tax evasion and customs fraud piles up and Matt finds himself sandwiched in a federal turf war, he realizes he's in way over his head with no good way out. And that's before he ends up in a real live jungle.

     

    Matt's dealing with a type of art he knows nothing about from an area he's seen only in war movies. Now the fate of some trafficked pottery may decide whether Matt gets his freedom… or spends a long stretch in a concrete cell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWombat Group Media
    Release dateNov 8, 2016
    Stealing Ghosts: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #2
    Chasing Clay: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #3
    The Collection: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      The Collection: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #1
      The Collection: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #1

      The Collection: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #1

      Lance Charnes
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      He's always been good at being bad. When he decides to match wits with the Mob on its turf, will he push his luck a shade past survival?   Matt Friedrich figures there's no way out. Half a million in debt after doing time for fraud, the former art dealer would do anything to ditch his post-prison barista job for something that pays actual money. So when a shady contact from his past offers him a trial gig at her semi-legal, highly profitable agency, he can't say no… even if it risks his parole and his life.   Handcuffed to a brusque new partner who doesn't appreciate his people skills, Matt finds himself in Milan on the trail of a man he tried to put away with his plea deal. But when the paintings they're pursuing catch them in a crossfire with the Calabrian mafia, the experienced swindler may find his second chance comes at a fatal price.   Will the payoff for Matt's long con be delivered in cash or corpses?   The Collection is the wickedly fun first book in The DeWitt Agency Files crime caper series. If you like morally colorful heroes, thick layers of intrigue, and underpinnings of grit, then you'll love Lance Charnes's thrilling tale.

      He's always been good at being bad. When he decides to match wits with the Mob on its turf, will he push his luck a shade past survival?   Matt Friedrich figures there's no way out. Half a million in debt after doing time for fraud, the former art dealer would do anything to ditch his post-prison barista job for something that pays actual money. So when a shady contact from his past offers him a trial gig at her semi-legal, highly profitable agency, he can't say no… even if it risks his parole and his life.   Handcuffed to a brusque new partner who doesn't appreciate his people skills, Matt finds himself in Milan on the trail of a man he tried to put away with his plea deal. But when the paintings they're pursuing catch them in a crossfire with the Calabrian mafia, the experienced swindler may find his second chance comes at a fatal price.   Will the payoff for Matt's long con be delivered in cash or corpses?   The Collection is the wickedly fun first book in The DeWitt Agency Files crime caper series. If you like morally colorful heroes, thick layers of intrigue, and underpinnings of grit, then you'll love Lance Charnes's thrilling tale.

    • 2

      Stealing Ghosts: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #2
      Stealing Ghosts: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #2

      Stealing Ghosts: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #2

      Lance Charnes
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      Dorotea DeVillardi is ninety-one years old, gorgeous, and worth a fortune. Matt Friedrich's going to steal her.   The Nazis seized Dorotea's portrait from her Viennese family, then the Soviets stole it from the Nazis. Now it's in the hands of a Russian oligarch. Dorotea's corporate-CEO grandson played by the legal rules to get her portrait back, but he struck out. He's hired the DeWitt Agency to get it for him – and he doesn't care how they do it.   Now Matt and his ex-cop partner Carson have to steal Dorotea's portrait from a museum in a way that nobody knows it's gone, and somehow launder its history so the client doesn't have to hide it forever. The client's saddled them with a babysitter: Dorotea's granddaughter Julie, who may have designs on Matt as well as the painting. As if this wasn't hard enough, it looks like someone else is gunning for the same museum – and he may know more about Matt and Carson's plans than he should.   Matt went to prison for the bad things he did at his L.A. art gallery. Now he has a chance to right an old wrong by doing a bad thing for the best of reasons. All he has to do is stay out of jail long enough to pull it off.

      Dorotea DeVillardi is ninety-one years old, gorgeous, and worth a fortune. Matt Friedrich's going to steal her.   The Nazis seized Dorotea's portrait from her Viennese family, then the Soviets stole it from the Nazis. Now it's in the hands of a Russian oligarch. Dorotea's corporate-CEO grandson played by the legal rules to get her portrait back, but he struck out. He's hired the DeWitt Agency to get it for him – and he doesn't care how they do it.   Now Matt and his ex-cop partner Carson have to steal Dorotea's portrait from a museum in a way that nobody knows it's gone, and somehow launder its history so the client doesn't have to hide it forever. The client's saddled them with a babysitter: Dorotea's granddaughter Julie, who may have designs on Matt as well as the painting. As if this wasn't hard enough, it looks like someone else is gunning for the same museum – and he may know more about Matt and Carson's plans than he should.   Matt went to prison for the bad things he did at his L.A. art gallery. Now he has a chance to right an old wrong by doing a bad thing for the best of reasons. All he has to do is stay out of jail long enough to pull it off.

    • 3

      Chasing Clay: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #3
      Chasing Clay: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #3

      Chasing Clay: A Matt Friedrich Art Caper: The DeWitt Agency Files, #3

      Lance Charnes
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      It's pure white, deep blue… and dirty all over.   Nam Ton ware – centuries-old ceramics from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle – captivated the DeWitt Agency's tech-tycoon client. Now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on his case for buying smuggled antiquities. To get immunity, he's hired the agency to run an off-books investigation into Nam Ton's source. Disgraced ex-L.A. gallerist and ex-con Matt Friedrich is in charge. If he finishes within sixty days, he'll earn an early end to his probation. If he doesn't, he may go back to prison for bending the federal criminal code into a pretzel.   Soon enough, Matt's in San Francisco, getting tight with Savannah, the client's beautiful art advisor, to scam his way into the smuggling operation. As the burglary, blackmail, tax evasion and customs fraud piles up and Matt finds himself sandwiched in a federal turf war, he realizes he's in way over his head with no good way out. And that's before he ends up in a real live jungle.   Matt's dealing with a type of art he knows nothing about from an area he's seen only in war movies. Now the fate of some trafficked pottery may decide whether Matt gets his freedom… or spends a long stretch in a concrete cell.

      It's pure white, deep blue… and dirty all over.   Nam Ton ware – centuries-old ceramics from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle – captivated the DeWitt Agency's tech-tycoon client. Now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on his case for buying smuggled antiquities. To get immunity, he's hired the agency to run an off-books investigation into Nam Ton's source. Disgraced ex-L.A. gallerist and ex-con Matt Friedrich is in charge. If he finishes within sixty days, he'll earn an early end to his probation. If he doesn't, he may go back to prison for bending the federal criminal code into a pretzel.   Soon enough, Matt's in San Francisco, getting tight with Savannah, the client's beautiful art advisor, to scam his way into the smuggling operation. As the burglary, blackmail, tax evasion and customs fraud piles up and Matt finds himself sandwiched in a federal turf war, he realizes he's in way over his head with no good way out. And that's before he ends up in a real live jungle.   Matt's dealing with a type of art he knows nothing about from an area he's seen only in war movies. Now the fate of some trafficked pottery may decide whether Matt gets his freedom… or spends a long stretch in a concrete cell.

    Author

    Lance Charnes

    Lance Charnes has been an Air Force intelligence officer, information technology manager, computer-game artist, set designer, Jeopardy! contestant, and now an emergency management specialist. He’s had training in architectural rendering, terrorist incident response and maritime archaeology, but not all at the same time. His Facebook author page features spies, shipwrecks, archaeology and art crime. For more information and to access book extras (such as bonus chapters and author interviews), go to www.wombatgroup.com.

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