Escape Clause ( Bill Tasker #3 )

FDLE agent Bill Tasker's boss is worried about the stress Tasker's been under, but he has a solution. The governor wants somebody from the outside to take a look into an inmate homicide at Manatee Correctional Prison, and the boss figures he can do the state a favor and give Tasker a break at the same time. Some break. Turns out there's a whole lot going on at Manatee. The prison captain likes to enforce discipline by fairly unorthodox methods. The psych ward has been known to misplace a mental patient occasionally. A trustee named Luther has far more on his mind than working in the prison library-though the rods holding up the shelves do make very nice shivs. The prison inspector is carrying a number of very uninspector-like secrets. And something very bad is about to happen to Tasker's next-door neighbor. "FDLE agent Bill Tasker's boss is worried about the stress Tasker's been under, but he has a solution. The governor wants somebody from the outside to take a look at an inmate homicide at Manatee Correctional Facility, and this way, the boss figures, he can do the state a favor and give Tasker a break at the same time." "Some break. Turns out, there's a whole lot going on up in Manatee. The prison captain likes to exert discipline by fairly unorthodox methods. The psych ward has been known to misplace a mental patient occasionally. A trusty named Luther has far more on his mind than working in the prison library - though the rods holding up the shelves do make very nice shivs. The prison inspector is holding a number of very uninspector-like secrets. And something very bad is about to happen to Tasker's next-door neighbor."--Jacket Taking on a seemingly less stressful inmate homicide case for the governor, FDLE agent Bill Tasker encounters unexpected complications in the prison captain's unorthodox disciplinary practices, the psych ward's misplacement of mental patients, and an inspector's dark secrets. Reprint. BILL TASKER TOOK HIS DAUGHTER'S HAND AS they crossed the parking lot heading into the Bank of Florida branch in Kendall, just south of the city of Miami. More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA