The body in the river... After witnessing by chance the recovery of a mysterious mutilated body in a public park in Northern California, San Francisco reporter Arnold Rednapp becomes embroiled in an ongoing investigation involving drugs, gangs, pedophilia, political corruption and murder, and follows a trail of clues that extends the full length of California and deep into Mexico. As he closes in on the villains, their desperate efforts to escape capture result in a climactic finale that brings the lives of Arnie and several of his closest friends to within a whisker of extinction. A tense thriller, filled with memorable characters and plot twists, that moves inexorably toward its breathtaking finish.