January 1991 finds Dan Reles living with Rachel, the beautiful widow of his slain best friend and former partner, as America watches the bombs drop on Iraq at the start of the first Gulf War. A botched assassination attempt on Virginia Key, a rising black community leader, leaves one of her children dead and the other in a coma. Dan is on the case as it captures the attention of the local press; Virginia herself captures the constant thoughts of Dan's new partner, Detective James Torbett, and becomes his dangerous obsession.In his search for the killer, Dan chases a gunman across Texas, tangles with a Middle-Eastern drug lord, and uncovers a mysterious and deadly disease that's carving a path through college campuses. While Dan's girlfriend Rachel fights to hide her own dark secret, Dan wades through a miasma of drugs, murder and sex, certain he can catch the killer and break the case wide open - unless the killer gets to him first. Read Less