Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye.

He receives an invitation, and decides to attend his high school twenty-year reunion -- even though he remembers almost none of his fellow graduates.

"Might be a blast" he thinks -- renew old friendships, have a few laughs, exchange some war stories, might even be good for business, " I'll pass out some business cards . . . drum up some business."

. Little does Alan know that this night will materialize into his first major case. He has stumbled upon an evil which has grown in scope to affect scores, even hundreds of unwitting victims, and left a trail of blood, starting with a pool at his very feet on this reunion evening.