Shamus-winner Hall's superlative 11th thriller to feature Thorn (after Hell's
Bay) finds his iconoclastic Key Largo, Fla., PI with a newly acquired fortune.
Thorn is excited when his girlfriend, Rusty Stabler, presents a deal to protect
300 square miles of Florida from development and also put Earl Hammond's Coquina
Ranch game-hunting operation out of business. Then Hammond is shot to death,
Thorn is kidnapped.but Hall is just getting warmed up. While Thorn tries to
figure a way out of the literal hole he's in, Rusty and Thorn's longtime friend
Sugarman try to track him. Warped contract killers Jonah and Moses Faust, who
deal in serial killer memorabilia, and Hammond's very different sons, ex-football
star Browning and Miami cop Frisco, play large roles. Hall steadily ratchets the
suspense while seamlessly combining elements of Florida's natural history with
elements of the state's early development and overdevelopment.

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