Mason Prophet Long watches from behind the wheel of a taxi as an evening storm thunders down the beach. Alcohol and drug abuse has forged a crack in his personal paradise, a chasm that grows bigger each day. When he finds his eight o'clock fare dead in bed, strangled with blue-black-yellow-purple bruises around her throat, the crack widens. The police immediately make him their number one suspect. Can he find the real killer before his life spirals completely out of control?