Product Description The nightmare started, when Hollywoods leading man R.B. Arbee Washington is accused of murdering his publicist and her lover. Although he was found not guilty in the initial criminal trial, he lost the subsequent civil case. Rather than accepting the court-imposed penalties, he skipped bail and fled to the Bahamas to visit his hidden money in off-shore banks. Retired Los Angeles police detective Larry Porter picked up the fugitives scent after his former partner, still on active duty with the LAPD, provided him with confidential details of the police and INTERPOL investigation. A riveting cat-and-mouse-game leads the two adversaries from the underground world of Soho to their Mafia connections in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and to a mysterious monastery on a mountain-top in the Caribbean. When one of the off-shore bankers robbed and nearly killed Arbees partner-incrime and lover Joe-Joe, the actor decides it was time to go on the offensive. After a killing-spree that eliminated most of the people who knew his identity, Arbee decides to remain in the islands and start a new life under an assumed name. But he did not count on Detective Parkers tenacity ... About the Author Gordon Froede was born in Berlin, Germany. Educated at Freie Universitaet Berlin, he learned his craft at Paramount and Universal Pictures. Following a career in advertising and marketing, he decided to pursue writing on a full-time basis in 1987.