A group of privileged car fanatics takes an overnight trip to the Oregon coast. One of them doesn't come back. The missing man was a high profile Portland attorney with well publicized shady tactics. Did his new wife get tired of him already? Did he have a girlfriend with a jealous streak? Or which of his many dissatisfied clients might have offed him? It falls to Carlton's wise-cracking PI, Cade Blackstone, to find out, but the stakes are higher than anyone imagined.