Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin Bay to find an old friend and one-time lover waiting for him Her real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead and shes sure there is worse to follow - and shes right Following the trail Ford ends up deep in the Everglades at the gates of a community presided over by a man named Bhagwan Shiva formerly Jerry Singh Shiva is big business but that business has been a little shaky lately and so hes come up with a scheme to enhance both his cash and his power Of course theres the possibility that some people could get hurt and the Everglades itself damaged but Shiva smells a killing And if that should turn out to be literally as well as figuratively truewell thats just too damned bad
