John Straley brings his storytelling abilities to a new level in this completely original period crime story.It's 1935, and Slip Wilson, rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker, has quit his job at a logging camp, hoping to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in a ditch, and his life takes a hard turn. The woman, Ellie Hobbes, is an anarchist with big dreams-but first,...

In the Pacific Northwest, a sailboat disappears after drifting into a "live-fire" naval exercise. Maritime private investigator Charlie Noble is asked to find out what happen to the couple aboard. Teaming up with his partner, American Indian salvage diver Raven, Charlie heads toward the Inside Passage where a hidden cove provides answers to what really happened in Whiskey Gulf. Also looking for the sailors is a Middle Eastern agent and the investigation...