When you pick this book up, you cannot put it down. This is a crime novel unlike any I have read, moving from the present to the past, and back again. It evokes the Northwest, from its tall Douglas Firs to its friendly, open people. There is a sympathetic hero, a man who has suffered, who knows the law, technology, the music business, and how to fight. There is love, unremitting tension, and there is danger. It will keep you up at night.