His client is dead. But charlie parker will not rest . . the community of prosperous, maine, has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator charlie parker to prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small maine town, parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie parker has been marked to die so that prosperous may survive.