Deadlines

ISBN: 1935448048

Author: McHugh, Fellow Paul

Condition: New

Deadlines launches into action when a land-use activist, Beverly Bancroft, is slain on a stretch of California shore.The killers, who disguise her death as an accident, work for Cornu Point, an equestrian resort seeking to boost profit from public land along the coast.A young reporter, Sebastian Palmer, finds Bancroft's death could be a clever murder. He's assisted by a new friend, Elle Jatoa, a beautiful, athletic Brazilian who yearns to be a cop.Palmer s newspaper assigns veteran columnist Colm MacCay to Palmer as mentor. MacCay, a wild alcoholic, fails to perform. Palmer soon becomes the next victim.MacCay convinces Jatoba he can revive his investigative skills. She helps him uncover the land-grab that prompted attacks on Bancroft and Palmer.Deadlines ends on the old Bancroft estate. MacCay and Jatoba must face a determined killer and a lawman who might not be on their side. Their lives are at stake, as well as fate of lands on the California coast.