A thoroughbred race horse collapeses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win. Hours later the stallion's trainer, a young woman with a promising career, is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach.
The police draw a facile solution - murder/suicide. A woman to blame?
Mike Hegan, a veteran police detective being forced to retire on medical disability, refuses to believe the official version. His search for the truth leads him to a promontory on a Caribbean island where scores are settled ande lives lost.
The Story Behind This Book
A story in the New York times in the late 1970s became the germ of an idea for a film script. The script was not sold and I turned the story into a novel.
