A Vietnamese hitman has come to the City of Roses. His kill is easy, but there’s a problem. The victim was a client of Portland Private Investigator Nate Harver. What should have been a quick in and out job just got complicated. Now, the police have found this newest client, a software executive, floating face down in the Willamette River. What they call a suicide, Harver believes to be murder. Staying one step ahead of bullets, car bombs, and a killer who likes to use a hatchet is turning into a full time job. Soon the bodies of his friends and business associates are piling up like firewood and his chances of survival are rapidly going from slim to none. Every decision he makes turns deadly. American greed and international criminals mix together to turn the quiet neighborhoods of Portland into war zones. Harver will risk all when he comes come face to face with the unstoppable killer.