Prominent and highly respected San Antonio businessman, Harper Worthington, is found dead in a sleazy motel, with his pants around his ankles. Harper Prominent and highly respected San Antonio businessman, Harper Worthington, is found dead in a sleazy motel, with his pants around his ankles. Harper was supposed to be in Dallas for a meeting, but flew back to San Antonio and had a return flight booked to Dallas later in the evening. A teenaged girl is seen leaving the motel room by a taxi driver hired to pick Harper up and take him to the airport. FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her new partner, Barry Crawford, are assigned to the case. Harper was a government contractor with high level security, and his wife is a sitting United States Congresswoman. At first glance it is assumed that Harper was evidently with a hooker who took all his money and his cell phone. However, an autopsy reveals that Harper Worthington was given a lethal injection of poison and was dead before any sexual activity was performed. His cell phone is traced to a five-star hotel room of one of Harper’s acquaintances. The taxi driver gave a good description of the woman leaving the motel room, and she is identified.
Harper was very close to his daughter; they worked closely together, and she and her step-mother are not on good terms. Harper’s wife is secretly under investigation by another division of the FBI, and access to her is limited.
Sean Rogan, Lucy’s boyfriend, is a brilliant securities expert with high security clearance, and along with Lucy’s brother, Patrick, founded RCK. Sean is hired by Gregor Smith, the head of HWI, Harper Worthington International, to check out the company in San Antonio, and some very interesting information comes to light. The FBI isn’t pleased that Sean is involved in a case that one of their agents is working.
Exciting, dark, edgy, and pure terrific reading, BEST LAID PLANS might be one of the best books of its genre that you will read this year. Real characters are involved in believable story threads of treachery and greed. Allison Brennan is at the top of her game, as always, with this Lucy Kincaid page turner.