The Great American Giveaway Rush — Van Holt

Card always wanted to be a nice guy like Spade or Marlowe someday when he grew up. He never quite made it because he kept running into people who, as Card himself once put it, "just seem to bring out the me in me." Down on his luck, Card reluctantly takes a job from the beautiful and sexy Irma Lopez. He is also seriously thinking about joining what he calls the Great American Giveaway Rush. He wants to get his share before they give it all away to the illegal immigrants swarming into the country. But he finds himself spending most of his time trying to find out who is killing the prettiest girls in town, all of them somehow connected to a mailbox full of missing welfare checks with Mexican names on them. He almost gets framed for killing a cop's wife, the spectacular Nita Lugo. But the cops were jumping to conclusions again and he needed Malloy, the police chief, to warn away the bloodthirsty ones on the force. If Card survives this one, he will return in STREAKERS, which is a sequel to THE GREAT AMERICAN GIVEAWAY RUSH interwoven with a strange, disturbing story about two beautiful half sisters who claim they were attacked while jogging naked or almost naked on a dark street. But only they know what really happened. When Jake Card finds out, he wishes he hadn't.