Recounts the author's return to golf after quitting the game in college, describing how he purchased a set of clubs, practiced for eighteen long months, and agreed to compete in a tournament against much more talented players.
Tom Stratton suspects foul play on the part of the Chinese government when his friend, a Chinese-American art historian, dies after visiting an artifact-filled tomb in his home country.
When a body is found floating in Coon Bog, Florida, private investigator R.J. Decker begins a search for the killer. But as he examines clues for the murder, he discovers that a lot of questionable things show up at the large bass-mouth tournament.
Former hotshot investigative reporter Jack Tagger, now writing obituaries for a South Florida daily, sees a chance to reignite his career in the suspicious death of Jimmy Stoma, front man for the rock group Jimmy Stoma and the Slut Puppies.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
