Winner of the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel competition 1992 (Originally published by St. Martin's Press, 1994, by E. C. Ayres Revised and updated 2009). After a ten year hiatus, non-conforming private investigator Tony Lowell is back, this time to tell his own story. As the original combination war-veteran/peacenik and laid back hipster, Tony Lowell is the original environmental activist-detective. He refuses to carry a gun. But that doesn't mean he won't venture where others fear to tread.