Amazon.com description: Product Description: Amos Walker, Estleman's seasoned private eye, gets emotionally involved in a case for the first time. His good friend and Vietnam buddy Barry Stackpole is a news columnist who is subpoenaed by a grand jury and fails to appear. His employer is being fined $1000 each day that he does not show. Also, a sultry book editor is looking for Stackpole and a manuscript that he has supposedly written. Walker follows the trail of his missing friend into the world of organized crime, the car-theft racket, precinct police headquarters, crime hunters and his own shrouded past, with only a smoky sense of who is friend and who is enemy.