Asset Protection

A former criminal now working on the right side of the law runs into an old nemesis. He is still an asshole, and he is doing wrong.
What's a girl to do? Well if things are happening in LA, she finds an actor and gives him a script.
Good crime short story. Rusch certainly knows how to tell a tale.

(Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in 2014. Now available as an ebook in the normal places.)