Our opening character, Bill Saunders, has planned a relaxing day fishing. In addition to a couple of salmon he manages to catch something that certain people expected to be disposed of in a way that it would never be seen again. When Bill begins his own investigation into what he has caught he soon realizes it is time to involve the police. Before the story is over Bill's catch will come back to haunt him. The chase to track down the bad guys takes the reader from Portland, Oregon to Southern California and back again and involves the frustrations and triumphs of police work. Detective Andy...