Jorge ‘Shorty’ Guillermo is a math teacher in a ritzy suburb of Seattle, who makes more money mining data for private clients than he ever will teaching. He might be the only teacher who can afford to live in the district, he jokes. Seriously, he thinks something is wrong with that! There’s a lot about the school system in America that needs fixing.

The local Democratic Party is offering him a chance to be a part of the solution. They want him to run for state legislature. Shorty says yes.

Then the calls begin. Not just to him, but to his family. Weird calls. Threatening, he thinks, although mostly just weird. After the last few years, anything off seems like a threat. He’s gotten sucked in to his oldest friend’s police investigations, and if that wouldn’t make a person paranoid, he didn’t know what would.

Are the calls related to the police corruption investigation? Shorty doesn’t see how it can be. But he knows one thing — well, two, really.

One, weird escalates.

Two, he needs to call Mac. Shorty sighs. Calling Mac is almost a guarantee the situation will escalate. Mac’s solution to problems is to blow the suckers up.

But someone making threatening calls to his mother? Shorty’s just fine with Mac’s solution.

Book 8 in the Mac Davis Thrillers about a former Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.