FROM THE PUBLISHER

When Lauren Maxwell, the Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America society, arrives on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island to prevent the capture of wild orcas, she knows she has a prickly assignment. French biologist Raoul D'Onofre has won the right to take the animals fromt he deep, wild waters -- and he's not about to let eco-activists stop him. But then Sam Larrabee, Lauren's host and friend, is found floating in Cordova Bay, and she must turn her attention fromt he killer whales to a deadly mystery.

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Ken Hughes