Former San Francisco lawyer Dismas Hardy is being hunted by one of the thugs he once put away in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart.
Soldier. Cop. Lawyer. Dismas HardyтАЩs done the tough jobs, and had some tough luck. Now heтАЩs kicking back and tending bar at the Shamrock in San Francisco. But the past returns in the form of Rusty IngrahamтАФa former fellow prosecutor who drops by for a drink, warning Hardy that a perp they put away nearly ten years ago just got released...and might still be looking for revenge.
Next thing Hardy knows, IngrahamтАЩs houseboat becomes a murder scene, with a dead woman on board and Ingraham, presumably, at the bottom of the bay. To save himself, HardyтАЩs got to solve the case. But thereтАЩs more than one kind of payback, and itтАЩs not just the ex-con who might have wanted it. Now, as he tangles with a mob enforcer, a rejected lover, and a renegade cop, Hardy is haunted by the knowledge that the later you pay, the steeper the price...