Hooked on painkillers after being injured on the job and owing money to his source, the crooked Dr. Lamotte, Rickey agrees to open a restaurant on a lakefront casino boat in which Lamotte and a
silent partner have invested a fortune, only to discover that the line cook, an old friend with a past, is a convicted murderer and that Lamotte's partner has some highly sinister connections.
Original. 25,000 first printing.