You wake up floating in the Anacostia River, outside of Washington D.C., and your only memory of how you got there is a mysterious ring and a dame. There's always a dame. That's Randy Cook's problem. Now, he has to figure out why someone tried to kill him over a small-time art show. Along the way, he encounters bootleggers, corruption, the Klan, and a treehouse where one shouldn't exist. It all ends in The Pine Barrens.

Detective, mystery, noir, corruption, bootlegging.

Serg Koren has been continuously writing since high school. He has published a children's novel, and a series of four adventure novels. He writes with what some think is a strange sense of humor. He's also an IT expert in fault-tolerant systems (retired), iOS developer, blogger, amateur radio "ham", beer brewer, and foodie. He lives in Delaware, where there's not much to do but write.