Walter Sherman, a/k/a the Locator, is a tracker who honed his skills in Vietnam. He lives in St. John island and hangs out at a bar Bill a bartender with a mysterious past and Ike an old black man who smokes like a chimney.
When successful Atlanta lawyer Leonard Martin loses his family-wife, daughter and grandchildren-to a vicious strain of e.coli, he wins a $6 million settlement and promptly disappears. Three years later, Martin begins gunning down those connected to Knowland, the meat-packing company responsible, one by one-from line workers to high-powered investment bankers.
Through the grapevine they surviving Wall Street investment bankers contact Walter and ask him to find this unknown assassin.
Isabel is a young journalist who writes obituaries for the New York Times and starts linking 3 random deaths together and concludes all were connected to Knowland and probably killed the same person. She becomes an overnight sensation and attracts the attention of Walter and he helps her make an even more sinister spider web of people who decided that human lives were worth less than money and their comfort.
I discovered this series because I really enjoy the TV show based on this series. Finder on Fox. It is quirky and fun and while I see hints of the characters in this book it is not nearly as quirky and fun but still an enjoyable supsense thriller. I will probably read another book down the road.