Captain Easton's last assignment, as an assessment specialist in Her Majesty's British Intelligence Service, was a bloody nightmare. Along with the embarrassing body count, and just short of a national scandal in bringing down a military ring of deadly smugglers, his nervous superiors sent him home and only wished he didn't make any more trouble. This was when he discovered his manipulative grandfather planning a wedding. His wedding. Making good his escape to the states, the focus was purely on having a holiday, but instead he ended up smack in the middle of an inexplicable conspiracy to ruin a woman's business. Then there was the killing of a child, an attempt at arson, the baffling events that were tearing up a small town on the brink of expanding . . . and it was a good thing for the local police there was a specialist in the neighborhood. No one else seemed have a clue. The story details how an intelligence officer has to think, with characters that are sharply drawn, and a plot that is weaving with superb diction. It will delight fans of thoughtful mystery and quirky humor.