With a lifeless body on his doorstep, ominous federal agents, and a deadly conspiracy looming, Lewis Cole finds himself in deep water that threatens to drown him . . . When retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole stumbles upon a murdered man in a quiet state park near his coastal home in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, he's determined to stay out of the case. But his plans are derailed when a team of federal agents arrives, claiming the victim...

One of Lewis Cole's close friends, Felix, is in trouble. Once an enforcer for the Boston mob, Felix is convicted of murdering a local businessman and politician and is due to be sent to death row. Lewis thinks his friend has been framed, but Felix won accept Lewis' help -- or even his calls. But Lewis is nothing if not loyal, and knows he must save his friend from death row even as he races against the state carrying out its sentence -- or the...