By this time, the author may have republished this story under half a dozen new titles with half a dozen new covers. A rather annoying practice.

The Teffinger series is a fast-moving police story that centers around 34-year-old Denver Homicide Detective Nick Teffinger. Teffinger is always thirty- four in these books because Jagger wants the reader to be able to pick up the story in any order. Teffinger inhabits a James Bond-ish world where practically everyone he meets is a young, attractive woman who swoons over him. Teffinger constantly drinks coffee and doesn't do a great job of following the rules and procedures of his Department.

Many of Jagger's Teffinger novels are told through three-pronged points of view (meaning he tells the stories through alternating chapters with different points of view). Not this one, however. For this tale, Jagger has focused almost exclusively on Teffinger's point of view except for some brief scenes from Kovi-Ke's point of view.

The plot lines involve voodoo, serial killers, stewardesses who pilfer millions of dollars worth of gold and jewels when no one is looking, mysterious Haitian women stalking tv broadcasters through the streets of Denver, rock stars toting guns against cult leaders, kidnappings, and other things.
Some of the plot lines are simply not as strong in this one as in other books. Although it starts off well as a Denver detective stalks a serial killer, the plot lines get loose and crazy after a CIA agent disappears and the story moves to Haiti. Some of the story at that point seems more like a melding together of different tales than a wholly consistent story.

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