Against the Law by David Gordon

 

This was a fun novel to read. Breezy prose and snappy dialogue and a story that seems real-world-adjacent but isn't really all that plausible. The situation in the series changes abruptly in this novel--I seem to have been mostly correct that the situation at the end of the previous book simply could not hold--but there are some things that might be pending, and there are some situations that seem likely to evolve in one direction or another. While there's probably some benefit to reading these in order, Gordon does a good job of making sure the reader has enough context to understand what's going on.