Amazon.com description: Product Description: Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton has finally learned to hit or so it seems to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler, a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father, is hired to prove that Pepper did not kill his sister with a baseball bat. A boyhood hero of Moroni s, Pepper is living, potbellied proof that the past, like everything else, just ain t what it used to be.While the Mormons use computers and private security men to keep tabs in their town, and Moroni s former girlfriend pulls a paternity suit on Moroni s father, the case of the ex-shortstop and his murdered sister is growing more sinister all the time. With a religious fanatic, a slick church lawyer, and an old ballplayer s lifelong dream involved, Moroni knows this is a story about how the road to glory is paved with blood.