The Last Refuge (Paperback)

Sam Acquillo is a middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parents' ramshackle cottage. He has abandoned friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. But when the old lady next door is found dead in her bathtub, Sam is the only one who wonders why. Despite himself, the ex-engineer and ex-professional boxer finds himself uncovering secrets no one could have imagined. Meanwhile, a procession of quirky characters including a beautiful banker, pot-smoking lawyer and gay billionaire join a full complement of police, thugs and local luminaries intruding on Sam's misanthropic ways. And some are deadly -