This was going to be the case that truly sets Jason Kolarich as a rising defense attorney star in his top legal firm and will make life rich and easy for his wife, Talia, and their new baby daughter, Emily. Determined to get every shred of evidence for the case, Jason, a hard pushing former State football star, puts the pressure on Ernesto Ramirez to tell all that he knows and even delays on a major family obligation for the call from Ernesto. Meanwhile, Talia, getting angry with Jason for holding them up from the family visit, grabs the baby and heads off for the trip in bad weather.

The call he waited for never comes and instead is a call that his wife and Emily have been killed in a bad accident. His grief and guilt is enormous and Jason tailspins out from his work and almost everyone he is connected with. A fellow lawyer and good friend, Shauna Tasker, offers him a space in her law office and Jason makes a half-hearted attempt to regain his life. One day, he gets an unexpected visitor when Ernesto Ramirez's wife comes to call. To purge his guilt after hearing her, Jason finds a new goal in life -- he is going to track down Ernesto's killers or die trying.

With his headstrong way and focus on his new goal, he manages to get ensnared in an FBI undercover probe involving high-level breach of trust corruption, bribery, kick-backs and extortion. As FBI Agent Chris Moody holds his feet to the fire, Jason decides the only way he can do his digging to find the dirt is to be a government snitch and seeks out the underbelly of the self-serving advisers and hanger-ons to those in power. But, will he get the same horrible fate as the last snitch that went in wired?

Award-winning author David Ellis has created a very compelling and authentic look at the ugliness of political corruption in BREACH OF TRUST. While it is terrific as a standalone read, Ellis fans will be thrilled with the return of Jason Kolarich as this story builds on what happened in A Hidden Man. Ellis presents an incredible portrayal of Jason dealing with his suffering and guilt of the loss of his small much loved family and how he grabs back into life with his need to do what is right and "to hell with them" attitude. Drawing on his own legal experiences, Ellis also gives a very realistic story development as he moves the plot between fast paced and suspenseful action to the very detailed case development work on what is needed to bring political corruption crimes to justice. Warning: Very hard book to put down once you start it! Too entertaining and engrossing to be missed!

Book Summary

On the night his wife and infant daughter died, attorney Jason Kolarich was awaiting a call from an informant. He blames himself not only for the deaths of his family, but for the informant's murder as well. Kolarich can't bring back his family, but he can find the person who killed the informant. And he discovers that his informant's murder was only the tip of the iceberg-and that exposing the truth will drag him into the fight of his life.