Kirjahaku

When the mother of MacCrimmon's infant daughter is drowned, it is rumored she was killed by members of her late husband's cartel looking for his stash of gold. At first MacCrimmon is more concerned with his daughter, who has gone missing, taken by her nurse. But when his good friend Father Gus is murdered while investigating property they jointly own outside of the dusty little desert town of Mecca, he is certain Gus had stumbled on the gold. When he sneaks onto the property at night he finds the current occupants may not have found the gold themselves, but they are willing to kill anyone who comes looking for it, including him.

San Francisco is shocked when the incinerated body of John "HammerJack" Marteau, the linebacker for the Fortyniners, is found in his burned out SUV at the bottom of a ravine. Andrew MacCrimmon has other problems-he is recovering from a four month bout of morbid depression following a near-fatal gunshot wound, and his marriage is disintegrating-but he is drawn into the case when a chance encounter with Marteau's dental tech convinces him the body is not Marteau's, that this is a life insurance scam. If so, whose body is it? And who's involved? In the end, the conspirators strongly resent his meddling.

Thomas Waine has a job for Edward Riss: participate in the fake kidnapping of his wife, Solange. Waine plans to pay a huge ransom then declare bankruptcy thus avoiding taxes and massive debts. Andrew MacCrimmon becomes involved after meeting Riss's wife while working on another case. She tells him she fears for her husband's life. MacCrimmon reluctantly looks into it in spite of marital problems of his own.The fake kidnapping goes off as planned but Solange disappears with the entire ransom, which is not part of the plan. When Riss's body shows up in Golden Gate Park MacCrimmon goes on the hunt for the stolen ransom and for Riss's murderer. He ends up finding a lot more than he bargained for.

When Dr. Andrew MacCrimmon surprises his wife, Karen, in bed with her personal trainer, he takes a long drive to clear his head. In the desert outside of Lone Pine, he is mugged and left to die. Bob Seibel, a bar owner, rescues him, and, in return, MacCrimmon tends bar for Bob while he and his wife go on vacation. Se ora Lena Montoya, the runaway wife of a Tijuana drug lord, meets MacCrimmon in the bar and over the next weeks falls in love with him. Her husband finds out, and has MacCrimmon taken to Tijuana to be tortured and killed. He and Se ora Montoya--who has been badly beaten by her husband--escape. Back in San Francisco Dr. MacCrimmon interrogates Karen's trainer and finds that, as happens so often in life, the situation was not at all what it seemed.

After Dr. Andrew MacCrimmon exposes Aron Woode's homicidal rampage and sends him into hiding Woode vows bloody revenge. When an innocent bystander is murdered with a straight razor, MacCrimmon realizes a family member of his was the actual target. He arranges protection for his family and goes on the hunt for Woode.Woode, stalks MacCrimmon's daughter, Dre, planning to kill her, but instead falls in love with her. He approaches her in disguise and asks her out, but she rejects him. More determined on revenge than ever Woode hires two Guatemalans to kill MacCrimmon but he shoots and wounds them both. As MacCrimmon and the police close in, Woode and his hired assassin, before leaving the country, put into play one last desperate plan of revenge. They lure MacCrimmon away on a wild goose chase. When he comes home he finds his wife, daughter, and son duct taped to chairs. The assassin stands over them with a straight razor promising to kill them all, while Woode covers MacCrimmon with a pistol. But, as happens so commonly in life, things are not what they seem.

While on a Caribbean cruise Andrew MacCrimmon uncovers a plot by a man named Thomas Padgett to kill his wife and replace her with her twin sister. When MacCrimmon confronts him, Padgett, a giant of a man, carries him bodily to the rail and drops him in the ocean. An old man who witnesses this tosses MacCrimmon a life ring. After floating two days in the Caribbean he is rescued near death by Cuban fishermen. After enduring nine months in a Cuban prison suspected of being a Yanqui spy, MacCrimmon, skeletally thin, severely malnourished, and worm infested, escapes to Florida where he learns his wife, Karen, thinking he is dead, has remarried. Before he rebuilds his life, MacCrimmon has two goals: to regain his health and fitness; and to find and kill Thomas Padgett.

When the mother of MacCrimmon's infant daughter is drowned, it is rumored she was killed by members of her late husband's cartel looking for his stash of gold. At first MacCrimmon is more concerned with his daughter, who has gone missing, taken by her nurse. But when his good friend Father Gus is murdered while investigating property they jointly own outside of the dusty little desert town of Mecca, he is certain Gus had stumbled on the gold. When he sneaks onto the property at night he finds the current occupants may not have found the gold themselves, but they are willing to kill anyone who comes looking for it, including him.