Publisher's Synopsis
When Matthew Cosby, a dissolute young man mixed up with fast women and slow horses, is found floating in the Pacific, it is presumed he has accidentally drowned. But his uncle, Joshua Pickering, head of a giant electronics complex, thinks otherwise. He hires Mike Faraday, the laconic L.A. private investigator, to investigate. In one of Mike's most baffling cases, he finds that underneath the sunny surface of Simpson's Landing, a small seaside resort, dark secrets are hidden...
