Flying Solo

Jack Solo is a wise-cracking, poker playing, chief inspector with the United States Marshals Service assigned to Interpol.

Chief Inspector Jonathan Solo of the United States Marshals Service has earned quite a reputation for recovering valuable artifacts. So, when a classic Monet painting goes missing from the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department enlists the aid of the famous Jack Solo. But the Chief Inspector finds out that fame comes with a heavy price. It would seem the Aliyev crime syndicate in Russia would like to see him dead. While Jack is investigating the missing Monet, he begins receiving cryptic messages urging him to travel to Peru where thugs from the Aliyev crime syndicate are trying to locate an ancient Incan artifact that has long thought to have been destroyed. Jack can't help but get involved, despite the price on his head. Many try to warn Chief Inspector Solo off the case, but he charges forward to a deadly confrontation with the Russian mafia.

The author, Irv Brandt is a veteran of the US Navy and a graduate of the University of West Florida. He served on the Atlanta Police Department, assigned to the ZONE 3 Precinct as a patrol officer and worked undercover vice and narcotics operations. Irv Brandt was a member of the US Marshals Service for more than twenty years. His assignments included serving as a deputy marshal in the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., and the task force supervisor of the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) in Las Vegas, Nevada. After being promoted to the Investigative Operations Division, he served as a senior inspector at the International Investigative Branch, as a chief inspector at the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, and as the US Marshals Service country attaché at the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica. In having conducted investigations in more than fifty countries on six continents, Irv Brandt has received numerous citations, including the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. He has been certified as an expert witness on international investigations and extraditions by the US District Court of Southern Florida. His investigations have been profiled on the television show America's Most Wanted, and he appeared in the National Geographic Channel series Breakout episode "Escape to Vegas". Irv Brandt has also been a panelist on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.