Undercover cop Dan Hudson is framed for blackmail and kicked off the NOPD force. Enraged about that, and the fact that his lover refuses to stand by him, Dan moves to Denver, where he becomes Dirk Steele. He finds a job working for the Powells, who are pawnbrokers ... and fences. When he proposes to them that he put together a team to steal on demand for the Powells’ less than legitimate clients, a deal is struck and the team is formed. The team consists of Maverick, a thief; Tripp, a street kid who shoplifts to survive; and Fey, another street kid who is an excellent pickpocket and petty thief. Now the question becomes, will the team succeed? And, equally important, will the attraction between Dirk, who has sworn off love, and Maverick -- whose credo is only down and dirty sex -- grow into something more? Or will they remain just 'friends with benefits'? Time will tell as the team takes on increasingly difficult jobs and a man from Dirk's past shows up who could possibly throw a monkey wrench into the works.

Wrong Side of the Law

Maverick nodded. “But not anyone else. He knew what car he was looking for.”


“So someone, and twenty-to-one it’s one of Pichot’s people, must have seen us leaving the apartment and followed us from there. We know the car wasn’t bugged. Once we left the pet store lot, they kept a tail on us until we got onto the highway.”


“If that’s how it went down, they’re good,” Maverick said. “I was watching for something like that.”


“They wouldn’t be working for him if they weren’t. They get the word back to him; he uses his connections to have the troopers looking for my car. Probably told them I was wanted in New Orleans for…whatever.”


“Why not come after you themselves?” Jesse asked.


“After what happened at the club, they’d figure I’d be watching for anything out of the ordinary. So Pichot gets the troopers to pull me over, and I get shot resisting arrest.”


There was a long pause as they thought about that. Then Maverick said, “A dirty trooper, working for him.”


Chapter 69