The Next

The Story

A cynical private detective and a member of the 'Sailors'--people who drift between the worlds of the living and the dead--Jimmy Miles follows the trail of a mysterious woman to San Francisco, where he is forced into a painful confrontation with his own troubling past and tragic obsessions, a seductive femme fatale, and the discovery of the true mission of the Sailors. By the author of The Quick. 20,000 first printing.