when Brad Axx heads his beloved jet-

black 1961 Lincoln Continental for

Florida, he s looking to get away from it all, if

only for a few weeks--away from the pointless

flak he s been catching from his bosses at the

NYPD, away from a life of doing his job the

best he can and getting kicked in the teeth for it,

and most of all, from the pain of his failure to

find his wife s murderer.

But when Axx arrives in the Sunshine State,

there are no white sand beaches and bathing

beauties to greet him. Still, the whiskey bottle

and dingy motel room in the middle of nowhere

strike him as just about right. Kristin McCauley

is just about right, too-so right that Axx is

beginning

to wonder if he might be in love again.

She s even got him thinking about settling down

here and buying property-from her, of course,

since she s in the property business.

Unfortunately, this idyllic future is not meant

to be. In fact, Brad Axx won t have very long at

all to enjoy his new-found contentment, espe-

cially not with Kristin. First, she turns up dead of

a cocaine overdose, and then her replacement in

the real estate biz turrtg up on Brad s doorstep

with some unsettling stories to tell.