The Permit

When Las Vegas cops gun down a covert federal agent, they become targets for Checkmate, a black ops team of assassins charged with neutralizing terrorists. Checkmate’s deadly message to outlaw killer-cops is load and clear: You kill. You lie. You die. “The murder-by-cop of Las Vegas resident Erik Scott in the summer of 2010 was the catalyst for this novel by his father, William B. Scott. It’s a stark revenge fantasy, but more than that, it’s an indictment of Las Vegas’s crooked cops, crooked sheriffs, crooked DAs and the Las Vegas moguls, who use them to protect the glittering image of Sin City . . . and to line everyone’s pockets. Without doubt, Las Vegas is the most corrupt city in America, right up there with Detroit and Chicago. My hat is off to Bill Scott for having the courage to write this . . . and the guts to go to Sin City to promote it. Everyone in Vegas isn’t buying police lies. Still, The Permit is a thriller; chock full of high-tech weapons and flying that only someone who has living it, like Bill Scott, could write. Read it as a thriller and enjoy it. Afterwards, think about police corruption and the corrupt political and union elites who facilitate and profit from it. It’s a cancer eating at our free society. We need honest cops, not juiced SWAT teams with licenses to kill. After all, YOU could be next.” —Stephen Coonts, New Your Times bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder, Pirate Alley and The Assassin.