They tortured her. They cut her throat and bled her then hung her from the rigging of Bay Rumble's self-designed, self-built sailing catamaran home, Baye Rumb. Three sisters hire Bay to find who did it. Wading through more killings and treachery, Bay finds his wisecracking, noisy, disrupting personality fighting terrorists with a plan torn out of today's headlines; drug smugglers, government agents, exploding boats, sea chases, twists, turns, even personal tragedy, and finally, Bay himself is tortured, left to die, and not sure he can wrap up and tie off this caper.