Season of Fear

Lake Wales, Central Florida. Ten years ago, a political fundraiser

became a bloodbath when a hooded assassin carried out a savage public

execution. Three men were massacred, casting a dark shadow over the

Sunshine State. A decade on, history is threatening to repeat

itself. The widow of one victim, herself now running for Governor, has

received an anonymous threat - a newspaper clipping from that fateful

day, along with the chilling words 'I'm back.' Florida detective

Cab Bolton agrees to investigate the threat against this candidate,

Diane Fairmont: an attractive politician who has a complicated history

with Cab's mother, Hollywood actress Tarla Bolton - and with Cab

himself. But by doing so, Cab is entering dangerous waters.

Fairmont's political party is itself swamped in secrecy - a fact that,

unknown to Cab, has led one of its junior staff to start asking very

sensitive questions about the death of a party employee. Both

Cab and this young researcher, Peach Piper, are digging up the kind of

dirt that ten years can't wash away. And as the powerful crosswinds of

state politics swirl around Cab and Peach, and the threat of a tropical

storm hangs over Florida, this whirlwind of pressure and chaos will

ultimately unearth a poisonous conspiracy, and reawaken a killer who has

lain dormant for a decade.