“The hard-boiled brigade has increased by one very touchy hombre.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Absorbing reading with the authentic touch of a professional on every page.”—Lafayette(Louisiana)Daily Advertiser

It was a nice, clean scam, John Rodrigue thought. Sink a boat way out in the Gulf so the owner could collect on the insurance, and pick up two thousand bucks for himself-easy money for a one-eyed salvager with a streak of piracy. After all, with two grand in his pocket and Sandy-a free-spirited and seductive barmaid-in his bed, life looks pretty darn sweet. Then Rodrigue learns that the boat was part of a dirty deal involving drug smuggling and something even dirtier: politics. Even with his glass eye, Rodrigue can see trouble coming...serious trouble.