SummaryDoc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin's Bay to find
an old friend and one-time lover waiting for him. Her real-
estate developer husband has disappeared and been
pronounced dead, and she's sure there's worse to follow-and
she's right. Following the trail, Ford ends up deep in the
Everglades, at the gates of a community presided over by a
man named Bhagwan Shiva (formerly Jerry Singh). Shiva is
big business, but that business has been a little shaky
lately, and so he's come up with a scheme to enhance both
his cash and his power. Of course, there's the possibility
that some people could get hurt and the Everglades itself
damaged, but Shiva smells a killing.
And if that should turn out to be literally, as well as
figuratively, true . . . well, that's just too damned bad.
Replete with passion and rich, pungent prose and some of
the best suspense characters anywhere in fiction,
Everglades is the finest work yet from an extraordinary
talent.
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