Common Sense (ePub)

Someone is kidnapping amnesiacs. Newly-wed private detectives Raam

Commoner and Kayman Karl are hired to find out how and why. Raam (rhymes

with bomb) is a recovering lawyer who joined his wife's PI firm after they

married, and Kayman (named after a south American alligator when her

mother's water broke in front of the crocodile exhibit at the zoo) is fast

earning a reputation as the best white collar detective in the LA Basin.

Raam goes undercover pretending to be suffering from memory loss, is

kidnapped and taken to a laboratory where a (probably mad) neuroscientist is

working on a mechanism to reprogram human brains with new personas in order

to create a for-profit private witness protection program. Kayman follows

Raam, and in a shootout with the scientist's henchmen the laboratory burns

down, the scientist and all his notes and equipment are lost, the henchmen

go to jail and Raam and Kayman go back to their core practice of corporate

espionage and security with a nice fee from the client whose husband had

gone missing and from the insurance company he was defrauding. When Raam and

Kayman get back to their office after their mad scientist episode they find

a new client waiting for them-Eddie Warden, Raam's coach back when he was

playing college baseball and now the manager of the leading team in Major

League Baseball. Coach Warden is being blackmailed for the murder of a woman

he had been having an affair with, and Raam and Kayman must find the real

murderer/blackmailer before the opening of the fast approaching World

Series-except their client is lying to them and the cops are closing in.

Baseball, money and hot sex drag them from Los Angeles to New York City to

Las Vegas as they discover that the murdered woman was a setup in a scheme

to fix the Series, that prostitution is a lucrative business in Vegas, and

that Major League Baseball will do a lot to keep itself clean.