Although King writes in the familiar nature-drenched idiom of other Florida writers and sounds the same environmentalist themes, he takes us far deeper into the Everglades and much closer to the hard-core survivalists who live a rough...

Joining in the investigation of a former police officer who is suspected in a series of killings in south Florida, Max Freeman is dismayed to learn that the suspect is from his own former precinct and had once had saved Max’s li...