Description:Retail
Hired to investigate a seemingly accidental death, a PI discovers a perverse secret.
Denver
oilman Phillip Townsend is alone in his Jaguar when he drives off the
cliff. The police call it an accident, but his widow, half mad with
grief, insists it was murder. Her husband was quiet, cautious, boring—so
what was he doing on the outskirts of Denver, driving drunk down a
lonely mountain road?
The Townsends’ lawyer hires Jacob Lomax
to look into the matter, letting him know that it would be best if the
official version of the story were quietly confirmed. An ex-cop who
became a detective in the wake of his wife’s murder, Lomax is too
dedicated to his work to simply parrot a police report. Digging through
the dead man’s office, he finds a tape that shows Townsend and an
accomplice binding, gagging, and raping a teenage girl. The most boring
millionaire in Denver, it seems, had a secret that was worth killing
for.