"Spencer Murphy is a national treasure: a famous war correspondent who escaped captivity in Southeast Asia, his books and television appearances have made him a fortune for half a century. But Spencer, a venerable member of the Wharf Rats--Nantucket's exclusive club for fishermen, storytellers, and characters--is growing forgetful with age. When Spence starts to wander and his half-Asian daughter disappears without a word, Nantucket police detective...

A roman à trois set on a Pacific island, featuring an American anthropologist, his much younger wife, and a local American bum who sells love potions to the natives. The bum and the wife have an affair, which she breaks, but when the husband is killed and she becomes a suspect, she flees to seek his help.

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