01993cam a2200301 4500 76535278 TxAuBib 20100707120000.0 071114s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007045783 9780525950394 0525950397 DLC DLC BAKER UPZ JRG TxAuBib Lescroart, John T. Betrayal / by John Lescroart. New York, N.Y. : Dutton, 2008. 422 p. ; 25 cm. When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher back home in the states, followed by a deadly incident in which Nolan's apparent mistake results in the death of an innocent Iraqi family as well as seven men in Evan's platoon. As the murky relationship between the US government and its private contractors plays out in the personal drama of these two men, and the consequences become a desperate matter of life and death, Dismas Hardy begins to uncover a terrible and perilous truth that takes him far beyond the case and into the realm of assassination and treason.--From publisher description. 20100707. Hardy, Dismas (Fictitious character) Fiction. Glitsky, Abe (Fictitious character) Fiction. Contractors Iraq Fiction. Iraq War, 2003- Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) Fiction. United States National Guard Fiction. Legal stories. Mystery fiction.