A cash-strapped private investigator is the only person a criminal organization trusts to investigate the murder of one of their own. The temptation to sell his integrity, his honesty, and his soul may be impossible to resist.

SYNOPSIS:

An important figure in the Russian, mob, Mikhail Volkov, is gunned down on the street

as he talked on the phone with the local Italian mob boss, Paul Vitelli. Volkov's last

words were "Hey! Tony!" before Vitelli heard the shots.

The next day, as private investigator Jake Moss eats breakfast in a diner, he's met by

Danny Bellamy, his former partner from when his days as a homicide detective. Bellamy

is notorious for being on Vitelli's payroll, and he's caught the Volkov case.

The Russians and the Colombians don't trust Bellamy and think anybody he implicates

will be someone Vitelli ordered him to implicate. They want someone they can trust to

investigate it.

They all agree, that means Jake Moss.

Jake had resigned from his job as a homicide detective in sheer disgust at the

corruption he'd seen on the police department, in particular in Bellamy.

But he's finding it hard going as a private investigator who has a sense of honesty and

integrity—he's perhaps too picky as to the cases he takes, which means he's

desperately short on cash. When Vitelli, via Bellamy, offers him the Volkov case he

reluctantly takes it.

Bellamy had found three Tonys who made good suspects before Vitelli told him to stop

investigating the case. All of the Tonys are career criminals, accustomed to covering

their tracks and lying to authorities, so it is not easy eliminating them as suspects. Jake

also discovers yet another Tony.

As Jake works the case the pressure mounts on him to compromise his investigation. A

lot of the pressure comes from an unexpected source—Garrett Jones, US Attorney.

In the end, Jake must decide which is more important: his integrity, or his life.

TOO MANY TONYS