Hes BACK.Dakota Stevens. The tough, wisecracking New York private eye. And hes smarter, funnier and sexier than ever. And so is his Watson--brilliant chess grandmaster Svetlana Krüsh. With her dry wit. Her runway legs. Her predator eyes.A Truth Stranger Than Fiction, the 3rd novel in the critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, delves into the bizarre, interconnected world of foreign spies and fangirls, mobsters and murderers, government bureaucrats and corporate profiteers.Manhattan PI Dakota Stevens has just moved into new offices on Fifth Avenue when a young woman walks in with a problem her older brother, a famous science fiction author, has been missing for a week.Before Dakota even has a chance to take the case, he and the young woman are accosted by a horde of people searching for the brother government agents, thugs, mobsters, and two mysterious Chinese men.