BADGE 25 - A Frank Merriman, P.I. Novel

San Diego Police Department Captain Scott Kenneth "Pistol Sam" Brannigan, who wore Badge 25 when he was succeeded in December of 2021 by Captain Rodderick Matthew Kick, had been shot down by Commissioner Sam Kenworthy Jr., a Minnesota-born, California-educated law professor working for the University of California San Diego's (UCSD) School of Law and a graduate of the Electoral College. Whenever the new captain of the SDPD gets his thugs and other mobsters invading Southern California, the Merriman Investigations team, led by Los Angeles Police Department Private Investigator Frank "Trigger Happy" Merriman prepares for the infiltration of all San Diego visitors awaiting their arrests.

BADGE 25 tells the hilarious and highly controversial story of Detective Merriman's assignments and cases involving the travelers committing San Diego-style crimes and attacking several villains who go after them, including Sgt. Tim Hanneman of the California Highway Patrol, the urban gangsters who get Merriman himself, "Laser Beam" Bean, Lt. Howard Finkelman, San Diego Mayor Sam Wonk, Dean Bronson, Merriman's sidekick, and enclosed shopping center security security guards throughout the Golden State.

Mark T. Watson, the acclaimed author of THE ASPIRATION OF DETECTIVE BRODERICK THROCKMORTON and FRANK MERRIMAN, P.I., brings offbeat law enforcement satire to the second novel in his FRANK MERRIMAN, P.I. MYSTERIES series - known that Trigger Happy Frank opens and closes countless investigations and cracks the case at every twist and turn.

With BADGE 25, Watson makes mystery thriller readers laugh their entire bodies off when he brings his unique brand of private-investigator humor and law-enforcement satire to the masses..

Shoot your innards - Frank Merriman, P.I. is going to shoot your brain off!