THE TRAILING GHOST is a detective/mystery story about cybercrime, spying in Washington, DC, and international intrigue. Dale Lipinski, the novel's main character, is a former special ops soldier who leaves the army and joins the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. He uses unorthodox methods to solve crimes, completes law school and passes the California Bar. He leaves the Sheriff's Department and becomes a special investigator in the office of the California Attorney General. In this novel, Lipinski has left the AG's office and is working as a security consultant and bodyguard. Through friends he learns that US covert assignments have been compromised and American government operatives have disappeared or been badly injured during failed operations. Lipinski has associates that are computer experts and hackers, intelligence gathering specialists, surveillance device designers, and trained assassins. He works closely with a friend in the Israeli Mossad, and does special "e;jobs"e; for the Mossad. When Lipinski learns about the espionage in Washington, he develops a plan to find the spies and the people responsible. He quickly learns about a sinister international cabal that setup the spy network, and sells information gathered to criminal and nefarious foreign governments around the world. The syndicate is a powerful organization that engages in the sale of weapons, drugs, human slave trafficking, extortion, and killings. Lipinski is secretly hired by an FBI leader to find the spies. The story is filled with dangerous activities that take Lipinski to places like Hawaii, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Canada. The story is fast paced, has intriguing characters, and dangerous situations. Lipinski identifies the cabal and attacks it in ways that will engage and fascinate the reader.