Book Synopsis: During his career as a cop on the back streets of Boston Jeff Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard, to spend his days fishing for blues and wooing a sexy nurse named Zee. But when a local's boat mysteriously explodes off the coast, killing an amiable young drifter, Jackson is drawn reluctantly back into the investigative trade. For there's a serpent loose in paradise--contaminating Jackson's lovely, peaceful island with its poisonous venom of drugs...and death.