Common Sense

Someone is kidnapping amnesiacs. Newly-wed private detectives RaamCommoner and Kayman Karl are hired to find out how and why. Raam (rhymeswith bomb) is a recovering lawyer who joined his wife's PI firm after theymarried, and Kayman (named after a south American alligator when hermother's water broke in front of the crocodile exhibit at the zoo) is fastearning a reputation as the best white collar detective in the LA Basin. Raam goes undercover pretending to be suffering from memory loss, iskidnapped and taken to a laboratory where a (probably mad) neuroscientist isworking on a mechanism to reprogram human brains with new personas in orderto create a for-profit private witness protection program. Kayman followsRaam, and in a shootout with the scientist's henchmen the laboratory burnsdown, the scientist and all his notes and equipment are lost, the henchmengo to jail and Raam and Kayman go back to their core practice of corporateespionage and security with a nice fee from the client whose husband hadgone missing and from the insurance company he was defrauding. When Raam andKayman get back to their office after their mad scientist episode they finda new client waiting for them-Eddie Warden, Raam's coach back when he wasplaying college baseball and now the manager of the leading team in MajorLeague Baseball. Coach Warden is being blackmailed for the murder of a womanhe had been having an affair with, and Raam and Kayman must find the realmurderer/blackmailer before the opening of the fast approaching WorldSeries-except their client is lying to them and the cops are closing in. Baseball, money and hot sex drag them from Los Angeles to New York City toLas Vegas as they discover that the murdered woman was a setup in a schemeto fix the Series, that prostitution is a lucrative business in Vegas, andthat Major League Baseball will do a lot to keep itself clean.