After gambler and loan shark Jimmie Flambeau leverages Joth into an uncomfortable professional relationship, Joth and private detective DP Tran develop a high risk plan to deliver Heather from impending disaster. As nerves are frayed and lines are crossed, Joth stumbles on to a clue to a decades old mysteryand then ghosts from his past intrude.
"Irving's writing reveals the twists and turns of thecourts of law and the dark byways of the human heart."Barry Maine, Professor of English, Wake Forest University