A new chapter in the saga of one of America's most unforgettable literary families. Rufus Pedlock, a brilliant trial lawyer reluctantly involved in the defense of one of his most difficult clients ever-Mike Corey, an AWOL soldier implicated as a paid participant in a ritual orgy and mass murder which took place on a houseboat moored in the shadows of San Francisco hills.
Stephen Longstreet was a prolific novelist, screenwriter, cartoonist, and artist whose work ranged in subject from gourmet cookbooks to potboiler detective novels to portraits of American jazz greats. He published over 100 books in his lifetime, including the novel The Sisters Liked them Handsome, which was turned into a successful Broadway musical. Longstreet also wrote screenplays that would go on to star Hollywood greats from Ronald Reagan to Errol Flynn.