P.I. risks all in high-stakes showdown with rogue operatives

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Dec. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – For most guys, a week in Vegas with a beautiful woman would be a dream. But for P.I. Jackson Douglas, it quickly turns into a nightmare. The search for a call girl leads to a massive cover-up by a United States senator, a wealthy casino owner, potentially compromised CIA agents, and Jackson’s client’s father. But it’s what Jackson finds outside of Vegas, hidden deep in the desert of Nevada, that makes his blood run cold. Nathan Birr’s adventurous and witty detective is back and pushed to his limits in “All an Illusion – The Douglas Files: Book Three” (published by Beacon Books, LLC).

Attorney Hillary McKenzie—Jackson’s late brother’s fiancée—“hires” him to help her find a Las Vegas call girl named Arielle Coal. But Hillary is holding something back—namely, Arielle’s relationship with her father. Despite his disdain for Hillary, Jackson helps her investigate. They find themselves drawn into a web linking not only Arielle and Hillary’s father, but also U.S. Senator Carson Moore, real estate mogul Richard Holloway, and an array of shady characters.

To gather facts, Jackson and Hillary go undercover at the newest Las Vegas Strip hotel. Their long confidence game results in a harrowing escape. But it pales in comparison to the danger they find when they follow the evidence to a small town in the desert. Something is clearly amiss with the town’s residents, and it seems tied to decades old experiments conducted at a now decommissioned military base. Hillary is determined to uncover the truth, but some secrets will do anything to stay buried.

In “All an Illusion,” Birr’s smart-aleck P.I. may have met his match, on several levels. Hillary gets under his skin like no one else while always managing to outpace him mentally. But it’s when she disappears and Jackson must race to save her life that he finds himself pushed to his physical, mental, and emotional breaking point. Birr combines pulse-pounding action with shockingintrigue to create a page-turning adventure. Each scene is even bigger than the next, leading to an explosive climax.