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Dark Water: A Public Trust Legal Thriller
Paperback
Series: Public Trust, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Gulf Coast is a place of neon lights, salt spray, and dark water. It's also where the law tends to drift out with the tide.
Harlin Banks hates boats. As a Public Defender from the landlocked capital, he prefers his ground solid and his coffee hot. But when a desperate law student begs him to save her father, Harlin heads south to Biloxi, where the only thing deeper than the water is the corruption.
Bao Tran is a shrimper who has fished the Gulf for thirty years. He's honest, hardworking, and standing in the way of a massive casino expansion. When the Coast Guard raids his boat during a storm and finds forty kilos of cocaine in his bait locker, the message is clear: Sell your land, or die in prison.
The Feds call it an open-and-shut case. Harlin calls it a eviction notice with handcuffs.
To prove Bao was framed, Harlin and his team-Sam Rourke, the investigator who can spot a lie from a mile away, and Rosco Wheeler, a con man who knows exactly how to cheat a casino-must dive into a world of high-stakes gambling, dirty cops, and maritime law.
But when the evidence points to a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of the Azure Horizon Casino, Harlin realizes he can't win this case in a courtroom. He has to win it on the water.
To save an innocent man, they'll have to pull off the craziest heist of their lives: stealing a federal evidence boat, outrunning the Coast Guard, and catching a killer before the storm swallows the truth.
Don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.
The Public Trust is going off the deep end. And this time, they might not come up for air.
Ocean's Eleven meets A Time to Kill. Dark Water is a high-octane legal thriller that proves justice is worth fighting for, even when the odds are underwater.
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