ALL FALL DOWN

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Linda McKinney's husband Herb went to the hardware store and never returned. The police found him, hands bound with wire, tortured and shot in the back of the head - execution style. Why would anyone murder a phone systems salesman? FBI Agent Ted Gallaway tells Linda that her husband was one of six professional thieves known as "The Wrecking Crew" who pulled large scale robberies all across the West Coast. A month ago they knocked over an armored truck and got away with almost ten million dollars. Herb double crossed his partners - never split the loot with them. Linda can't believe her husband had a secret life... and can't believe he had millions from an armored car heist. Their house is mortgaged, they have credit card bills... her husband saved all of his change in a jar. Gallaway tells her the money is hidden somewhere - and it's his job to find it.

The other five thieves are in town, looking for their share... and they think Linda has it. When they descend on her quiet suburban home demanding their cut from the robbery, Agent Gallaway steps in to protect her. As the five thieves become more violent, turning Linda's neighborhood into a war zone, she comes to depend on Gallaway for protection... but can she trust him?

Gallaway seems more interested in the money than in arresting the thieves. Is Gallaway really with the FBI? Or is he one of the thieves? Linda's husband wasn't who he claimed to be... is Gallaway?

Linda must learn to fend for herself, to navigate the lies within lies that were her husband's life, and fight for survival against a quintette of dangerous armed robbers. Like "Charade" in suburbia, a twisted thriller about a woman who takes control of her life.

ALL FALL DOWN by William C. Martell

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