Cade returned to his hometown on a new thirty-eight-foot whaleboat after spending two years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Korea. On the first night in his hometown, he was beaten up by some sadistic guy who told him to get out of town. Then someone left a bullet-riddled corpse on his vessel. Three people in town hated him โ his greedy ex-wife, her scheming friend, and the big man who ran the local Mafia. But which of them ordered the hit on him?