From the perennial New York Times
bestseller comes a powerful new novel in which Detective
Shane Scully, who grew up as an orphan, must revisit his
painful childhood to find out who murdered the kind and
charismatic man who became a father to him
Abandoned
by his parents as an infant, Scully was reared in an
orphanage, Huntington House. The only positive thing in his
young life was the attention of the Home’s director, Walter
“Pop” Dix. Pop, an avid surfer, would take a small group of
kids for early morning surfing. He was the father none of
them had ever had. That was thirty years ago. Now,
Shane is forced to revisit these memories when Pop is found
dead, the victim of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun
blast. He leaves a message asking six specific people, all
of whom attended Huntington House, to be his pallbearers,
and Shane is one of the chosen. He and his fellow
pallbearers don’t believe it was a suicide. That leaves
murder. But why, and by whom? Together, the
pallbearers embark on a dangerous odyssey in pursuit of
justice for Pop, and for retribution against those
responsible for his death. Their journey takes them up
against an unforeseen adversary whose power and influence
far exceed anything they could have imagined.