The world of NIGHT RIVER is one in which the moon shines on a big blue-collar river while men blow things up for money, good cops toil alongside the corrupt, newspapers refuse to retract lies, human resource departments rule firms with arcane bureaucracy and twin sisters just might be true opposites. Behold Ryan O'Brien: naively anticipating a rewarding post-Marine Corps career when civilian life pokes him in the eye and transforms him into a person of unpremeditated action. NIGHT RIVER is modeled on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels; and perhaps Travis himself makes cameo appearances. It was Travis who once said: ." . . a boat is a living thing. It is a companion in the night." Larke is Ryan's sailboat and his companion, and she deserves to be remembered in a book.