Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender. By the author of Buzz Cut

Thorn and Alexandra Rafferty team up in a desperate struggle for survival when a sadistic modern-day pirate, Vic, tries to kill Thorn for having once had a relationship with Anne Joy, the pirate's sister

When the matriarch of a powerful and wealthy Florida family is found drowned and her son and granddaughter show up, claiming Thorn as a long-lost relative, Thorn becomes embroiled with a family he never knew he had as he attempts to solve the murder.

Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show and pits Thorn against a killer--or killers--whose motives are as elusive as their identities. The killings take place in Miami, where Thorn joins forces with a young policewoman from Oklahoma who is investigating the murders.

"A year ago Thorn's son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, he's intercepted by a federal agent who informs him he's too late--Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered,...