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Double Tap ReviewOm Steve Martini's latest mystery, retired staff sergeant Emiliano Ruiz is in trouble. Deep trouble.
Ruiz is indicted for the murder of Madelyn Chapman, the extremely wealthy CEO of Isotenics, Inc. (situated in the hills above La Jolla, Calif.), a corporation specializing in software programs for the Pentagon's Defense Department.
The defendant's fate looks bleak, as circumstantial evidence against him mounts overwhelmingly.
San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani and his partner/sidekick Harry Hinds have the daunting task of clearing Ruiz in this capital case involving a high-profile victim.
With the defendant stonewalling concerning a seven-year gap in his military history, and the Pentagon poised to quash evidence concerning clandestine activities at Isotenics, the deck is stacked against them. Their best hope may not be acquittal, but a mistrial.
The media have dubbed Ruiz "the Double Tap Killer," a reference to the fact that Chapman was killed with two shots to the head--less than an inch apart. A "double tap" is a technique for firing two shots in quick succession into a single target, a feat accomplished by expert military marksmen.
It doesn't help that Ruiz, a former security guard for Chapman, won awards for expert marksmanship while in the military; that Ruiz's gun (the murder weapon) is found at the crime scene, and that Ruiz, so charges diminutive prosecuting attorney Larry Templeton (aka "Tom Thumb), had been stalking Chapman shortly before her murder because she had him fired for indecent sexual advances.
Double Tap is much more than a potboiler murder mystery. It is both a work of existential depth, as Modriani poignantly describes flashbacks of his Uncle Evo's catatonic states and muses on the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde potential in each of us, and a cautionary warning about the political implications of government intrusion into personal privacy--all done, of course, in the name of "national security."
In his Farewell Address to the Nation (Jan. 17, 1961), Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence . . . by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Eisenhower's warning is especially relevant in our post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world. Steve Martini's Double Tap reveals, in fictional form, the chilling prospects of a government run amuck. Imagine the power of a dictator possessing unlimited access to a virtually omniscient spyware that tracks our personal affairs and transactions.
Here's a sample of Martini's prose: "Skulk around Washington too long and you'll find the bones of Diogenes--frustrated in his lamp-lit quest for the last honest man in the American Athens--piled up somewhere in the Senate cloakroom. . . . Learning that politicians are prone to engage in shady deals when feathering their own nests has all the jarring revelation of informing us that the ancient Greeks spoke Greek."
Double Tap is Martini's eighth book featuring Paul Madriani. Previous books in this series are: Compelling Evidence, Prime Witness, Undue Influence, The Judge, The Attorney, The Jury, and The Arraignment.
Written with crystal clarity, and featuring a fast-moving plot, brilliant courtroom cross-examinations, and sobering political commentary, Double Tap is a page-turner.
Martini keeps getting better and better.
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