EMERALD FLASH
by Charles Knief
Gumshoe/adventurer John Caine’s run at the Travis McGee Look- alike Award (Diamond Head, 1996; Sand Dollars, 1998) shifts into overdrive when he rescues a naked Margo Halliday from an armed pursuer in a Honolulu alley—and then from the police when the pursuer, her unsaintly ex-husband Billy Graham, is found murdered.