This time around Matthew Hope finds himself in southern Florida and in a mess. A woman he"s representing is suing a toy manufacturer she says stole her idea. The problem is, the president of the toy company was murdered, and guess who"s the prime suspect? The other problem--or problems--is that Hope"s primary private investigator winds up on a boat kidnapped by drug runners leaving Hope, who is still smarting from gunshot wounds he collected in other adventures, to contact by himself the subjects for the investigation, all of whom reside on boats. Got that? He does get some help, in the form of an old-school PI named Guthrie Lamb, who throws in his techniques to try to crack this rather nutty case.