Andy McBride marries the girl of his dreams and they both go to work for the Raleigh News-Sentinel. Aman-da McBride becomes a too-effective investigative re-porter which leads to three deaths. Devastated, Andy leaves the newspaper and accepts a job offer as skipper of a sport fishing yacht, where fishing off the North Carolina coast sets the scene for a fast paced sequence of events involving drug smug-gling and murder. Andy's former col-lege roommate, a re-tired professional football player and multi-millionaire, uses his extensive resourc-es to resolve the issues but not before seven more die. The story thinly dis-guises several North Carolina politicians and political issues of the recent past."