In the biggest professional move of her life, Sharon is
cutting her umbilical cord of All Soul's Legal Cooperative
and opening her own shop. But even before the phone lines
are installed, McCone Investigations gets its first case -
one that lifts Sharon off a roof in a helicopter and
deposits her on a posh hideaway on the north California
coast. Her new client is T.J. Gordon, a "turnaround man" -
that rare breed of corporate troubleshooter who creates
profits and enemies while reviving failing companies.
Gordon owns more than the helicopter that whisks Sharon
away... much more. And he's not really "new." A friend
from her radical student days in Berkeley, T.J. was a
campus nomad with a lifestyle shadier than most. Now T.J.
Gordon - grown ever more quirky, eccentric, and reclusive -
is convinced someone is trying to kill him. He wants
Sharon's help. Then he does another kind of turnaround: he
vanishes. Hanging in the balance with T.J.'s life is his
latest project, a visionary deal to revitalize an
abandoned stretch of the San Francisco waterfront. His
zigzag trail will lead Sharon both to Lost Hope, Nevada, a
desert ghost town transformed into a booming tourist mecca
with a mysterious long-buried corpse...and to Monora, a
decaying Pennsylvania steel town where old resentments
simmer beneath the grim shadow of empty mills. The clues
are baffling and include a hermit in a hovel built of
bottles and the saddened father of a missing union
organizer. As the bizarre pieces of the puzzle start to
fall into place, Sharon is desperate to find T.J. - headed
toward his deadly confrontation with his California
dreams.
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