A survivor of childhood trauma, two marriages, twenty hard years with the Seattle P.D. and the bottle, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont offers spent far too enough time trolling the darker waters of individual character. In the wake of the damaging professional tragedy, he has decided, finally, to pull the pin. But there is no protection in semi-retirement for a guy who, long ago, chose to make a violent globe his home.

Temporarily at amusement, Beau has decided to chaperon his newlywed grandmother on her honeymoon cruise to the Gulf of Alaska. But Beau’s brief idyll is usually abruptly shaken whenever a protection videotape shows a passenger going for a fatal fall overboard. Like it or not, the burden of investigating a heinous crime is once more on his shoulder blades. Adrift one thousand miles from home, J.P. Beaumont has suddenly discovered himself submerged in a terrifying conspiracy that, if allowed to proceed unchecked, could possess disastrous consequences, not only for Beau and his shipmates, but also for the continuing future of the globe they all wish to return to.