You see them…
You get close to them…
Then comes the shock of recognition.

Private Investigator Jimmy Miles works the Hollywood nights. In THE QUICK, his client was the desperate daughter of a dead man. This time, he tails a sad young woman north to San Francisco, a favor for a friend that leads him into a power struggle in the underworld. And inside himself.

But it's never just the case that keeps Jimmy Miles up at night...  

His world is full of secrets, shared with a restless few who roam the streets, who gather at the waterfront.

They call themselves Sailors.

“Vining adeptly blends crime and the supernatural in his second noir outing, just as he did in his well-received debut, THE QUICK. PI Jimmy Miles, a "Sailor" ( a human who has died but lives again with another's face), leaves his usual L.A. turf for San Francisco, hired to tail a woman bent on self-destruction who may be the victim of a cult that has encouraged a rash of suicides. Moving between the normal world and the hidden underculture of the Sailors, Miles works frantically to stave off further tragedy… (Vining) has created a neat alternate universe and successfully taps into big-city nihilism and despair. “

-- Publishers Weekly                                    

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