Description: Hopewell, Virginia, 1943: A mysterious German prisoner escapes from a nearby POW camp, killing three men as he flees west. The trail grows cold in Mississippi, but one stubborn lawman won't forget... San Francisco Bay Area, 1992: In his scruffy jeans and cowboy boots, Claude McCutcheon doesn't look much like a lawyer. He doesn't act much like one either, taking only the cases that interest him. And he sure as hell doesn't represent Bobby Norton. But that's what Bobby's been telling everyone since, hidden from view, he heard the gunshot that killed radical environmental attorney Myron Hirsch. McCutcheon, a former paratrooper with reflexes honed in Vietnam and a lifetime supply of sordid memories, has pared his life down to the bare essentials: a spare but by no means monastic existence. When Margaret Tikkanen of the Northwestern Lumber Company calls on him with a trumped-up story about buying commercial property, he's not interested in her business. But he's intrigued by Margaret, a woman who knows how to mix elegance and power into a lethally subtle brew. Meanwhile, Bobby Norton's mating with disaster, and heating up an old sheriff's long-buried obsession. Through no fault of his own, McCutcheon is being drawn into a dangerous, decades-old mystery - and a conspiracy from which no one is likely to get out alive...

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