'Strange the things our fates pivoted on: a kid selling gum and candy, a hard charger in a hurry, and a beached spook with a bad attitude.'The beached spook is Frank Thorpe, in limbo having recently left an off-the-books American Intelligence unit after an operation went down river.  Meer

Danny DiMedici's ex-wife Laura is missing, there's a corpse in her blood-spattered beach house, and Danny is the prime suspect. Desperate to get to Laura before the cops, Danny returns to the underworld he had known as a drug-dealer, a world of fast sex and hard drugs, casual violence and sudden death.  Meer

Right on the edge of- love and death-When a psychopathic drug dealer forces Val to witness a cop's murder Val knows he is in deep trouble.  Meer