Banker

Boston, 1986. Andy Roark, a Vietnam veteran and former military operative turned private investigator, has a new case that does nothing to lift his mood during a miserable spring. A bank president named Brock has hired him to look into three members of his staff, because one of them has embezzled more than two million dollars. Roark's job is to work out which employee is living above their means.

Two weeks of tedious surveillance turn up nothing, and Roark drops the job, convinced Brock needs a forensic accountant rather than a PI. Several weeks later the bank is held up, and one of Brock's suspects is murdered by the robber.

Roark can't see a connection, but he has never trusted coincidence. With the case still nagging at him, he starts a new investigation on his own dime. Soon he is mixing with some very shady characters and trying not only to solve the case but to come out of it alive. This hardboiled mystery involves embezzlement, murder and beautiful women, and is pitched at fans of Robert B. Parker and Jeremiah Healy.