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A tale of murder, deceit, and treachery played against a backdrop of organized-crime activity along the humid coast of a state in the Deep South, The Cassandra Prophecy once again demonstrates why Charles Wilson has been praised as a storyteller in the grand tradition of John D. MacDonald. As a member of the United States Secret Service, Clay Rodgers has been in many high-pressure situations; the most notable being when he risked his own life to save that of the vice-president of the United States. But nothing could have prepared him for the stress of investigating his own brother's death. He is also burdened with the guilt of his seduction of his brother's young girlfriend, Linda Donetti, whom Clay finds he must once more become involved with after he returns to Mississippi for the funeral and discovers a puzzling set of circumstances that led up to his brother's death. Deeply into a personal investigation that he feels is best kept from local authorities, he ponders the possible suspects. Could the murder be connected to Soung Ming, the Vietnamese who owns a small fleet of shrimping boats that ply the dark waters of the Mississippi Sound? Or could it have had something to do with Antonio Brouchard, the Cajun from south Louisiana, who runs a string of strip clubs in the Biloxi-Gulfport area? Maybe the murder was connected to neither of these men but instead to something his fiercely independent brother had organized himself. Then there was always the possibility that Clay really didn't know Linda as well as he thought he did. Charles Wilson, author of the highly regarded Nightwatcher, is back with his most intriguing mystery yet.