SUMMARY: Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way.& The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil.& Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man.& Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle-a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.
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Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way.& The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil.& Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man.& Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle-a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.