In the Pacific during WWII Billy Boyle must discover if skipper and future president Jack Kennedy is a cold-blooded killer In the midst of the brutal hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment hersquos sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper and future president Jack Kennedy has been implicated The victim is a native coastwatcher an allied intelligence operative whom Kennedy discovered on the island of Tulagi with his head bashed in Thatrsquos Kennedyrsquos story anyhowKennedy was recovering in the Navy hospital on the island after the sinking of his PT- motor torpedo boat The military hasnrsquot decided yet whether to make him a hero for surviving the attack or have him court-martialed for losing the boat and the last thing the Kennedy clan wants is a murder charge hanging over his head Billy knows firsthand that he shouldnrsquot trust Jack the man is a charmer a womanizer and when it suits his needs a liar But would he kill someone in cold blood And if so why The first murder is followed by two more and to find the killer Billy must sort through a tangled shifting web of motives and identities even as combat rages all around him.
