Lester Caine, a highly decorated New York City Detective Lieutenant, retired after twenty-five years, now in the Private Eye cop business, is living in West Palm Beach Florida. He thought it was the prefect place for him, his Cadillac convertible and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The murder of Palm Beach Judge Desmond Vanderbilt (from book one, Lester Caine Private Eye-Murder on Palm Beach) drew Lester into the dark side of hunting a Nazi war criminal. With Gloria Saville, known as Scarecrow, they face the underbelly of a dragon they never thought they would have to slay.