Double Tap — Steve Martini

The Arraignment was called "Martini's best Paul Madriani novel to date" (Booklist). But now, the author takes legal thrillers to a new level -- in a novel of a soldier's secrets and a government's lies...

A beautiful businesswoman, founder of a high-tech software company catering to the military, is found dead, two tightly grouped bullet wounds to her head -- a "double tap," the trademark of highly skilled assassins. Paul Madriani takes the case of the man accused of the crime: a career soldier who refuses to explain the mysterious gaps in his military résumé. Faced with an uncooperative client, Madriani begins a dangerous search for the truth -- in the soldier's shadowy past, in the victim's deadly secrets...