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"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...

"...A world-renowned architect, a man thought to be dying in a Los Angeles hospital, has called Amos Walker to a hotel room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, to find the person who engineered a heartbreaking lie -- and cost the architect the one woman he truly loved.."--Jacket.

PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to recover an illuminated medieval manuscript which was stolen for ransom. The assignment leads to information on the murder, twenty years earlier, of his partner and he reopens a probe.

No one knows Detroit, or its gangs, like Detective Amos Walker. So, he's happy to oblige a friend who asks him for help getting his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs. But, can a middle-aged gringo like him cool things off between the warring Maldados and Zapatistas in order to accomplish his task? And, what can he do once he realizes that he's right smack dab in the middle of an international conspiracy?

Reluctantly agreeing to return the ashes of a successful madam to her long-absent son, Detroit detective Amos Walker completes the task only to learn that the son has been murdered and that he, Walker, has been named a prime suspect.