[knighthawk]

Found it!

[Travis McGee]

I hope you enjoy it. The novel is set "in the near future" after a terrible massacre by a crazed shooter at a football stadium. Actually, the shooting was done by a rogue government agent and blamed on "right wing militia gun fanatics" in order to demonize the right, and lead to a ban of most firearms, in order to provoke the right wing into a violent reaction. The motive is for the rogue goverment officials to boost their authority and departmental budgets for their "war on domestic terrorism", which they in fact instigated themselves with the false attribution stadium massacre.