Perfect Prey

In the sweltering underbelly of a Gulf Coast city, a disbarred lawyer turned petty grifter, Carlo Demarco, stumbles upon a conspiracy that is not what it seems. A fake civil rights suit against the state bar becomes the bait for a vicious circle of predators—each believing they are the hunter. But when the real evil emerges, it wears the face of a quiet, unassuming judge who has been orchestrating a decades-long racket of extortion and murder, using the legal system as his slaughterhouse. No motive, no reason—just the pure joy of breaking men. This is a con within a con, where the only rule is that the last one standing was never playing the same game.