Like any big-city paramedic, Shaw Chandler had probably seen a thousand suicides. But he knows a murder when he sees one--and this time its his own father. Suddenly hes got a metal canister marked U.S. Navy in his hands, as hes dragged back to the crazed coral shores of his birthplace, sunny Key West, to explain it.There, two people from Chandler`s past--an impassioned doctor harboring his own long-buried secrets and his seductive actress-daughter, Trula--hold the key to a bizarre environmental scam turned deadly. And as the snares of a suspicious trap of suicides close about him, Chandler confronts a deranged killer with a negative IQ, a knack for rhyme, and a genius for killing... and the psychotic mastermind behind the southernmost monopoly on death...
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