Solo Shot

Chief Inspector Jonathan Solo of the US Marshals Service is back for another mysterious and deadly adventure.

Some people would say Jack Solo is a trigger-happy chief inspector with the United States Marshals Service assigned to Interpol. Those people would be wrong. Jack Solo's success in recovering priceless masterpieces and ancient artifacts has led him to be assigned to the FBI's stolen art department. After being involved in a deadly shootout at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC, Solo became world-famous for helping stop the largest art heist in history. So, when the Smithsonian Institution decided to loan the Hope Diamond to the British Museum as part of a major international gems display, Chief Inspector Solo was selected to deliver the stone. Jack Solo thought this would be an easy assignment until the stone mysteriously disappeared and he became Scotland Yard's prime suspect. Solo now has to clear his name, recover the stone and battle the leader of a crime syndicate from India that wants to destroy him.

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, DC and the task force supervisor of the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) in Las Vegas. After being promoted to the Investigative Operations Division, he served as a senior inspector at the International Investigations Branch, senior inspector at Interpol, Washington, DC, chief inspector at the DOJ Office of International Affairs and the US Marshals Service country attaché at the US 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. Irv Brandt has had his investigations profiled on America's Most Wanted, and he appeared in the National Geographic Channel series Breakout episode "Escape to Vegas". Irv Brandt also frequently appears as a panelist on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.