Boomsday fireworks light up the skies in downtown Knoxville. The light show reflecting off the Tennessee River's surface disguises the caustic waters beneath, polluted by years of improper regulation by inept, corrupt politicians. A troubled mayor and his personal assistant watch the show from the top floor of the city-county administration building. The mayor wonders if the patients staring out of the windows of Baptist Hospital on the bluff across the river are enjoying the incineration of $100,000 of their tax money for the brief show. Little does he know that one of those silhouettes in...

After thirty-three and a half years in Pelican Bay State Prison in California, Gypsy was paroled back into society. As he road the bus back to San Joaquin, California, his thoughts turned back to the firing of the Moosburg shotgun twice into the side of the large ice cooler that they pushed from the boat into the water. A 'pushh' sound then pinkish-red foam and bubbles poured out through the holes. Big Mike had reached over the side of the boat, attached an ancher chain around whatever was inside, then tipped it over, spilling the contents into the dark water making a slight 'splunk' sound....