Crossfire

Crossfire is the second volume of the Land of the Evergreens Trilogy. These novels aim to create a cultural memoir based on unique aspects of this country's 1980s. Set in the shadow of Washington State's Mount Rainier, this book is focused on the area's horse-racing track, its links to Seattle's professional football team, and a group of individuals randomly woven together and connected by the conflicts and intrigue found in the midst of that era's cocaine and arms trades. Hidden within big-time sports, and reaching from Panama to the White House, these activities result in high-stakes scandals, romance, and betrayal. The story's central character is familiar from Book I, now living with a different name, but still facing constant risks and challenges to this assumed identity and his clandestine existence: "One of the first things you learn underground is that you don't ever call the cops, not for anything... Now, as he surveyed the wreckage of his ransacked apartment, this fact of life became more real than ever."