In three months, the Prudhoe Bay oil operation has logged half a dozen drug overdoses, and one death: Chuck Cass, thirty-four, production operator, loner - found floating facedown in the company pool wearing full flight gear. Jack King, head of the Alaskan Royal Petroleum Company, is a man with all the social grace of a blast furnace and a company-wide drug problem. So he's in need of a discreet investigator to sign on at ground level. Someone who can navigate a flat-bed truck through a fifteen-knot wind at forty degrees below freezing and root out a narcotic supply without arousing suspicion amongst their co-workers. sounds like a job for Kate Shugak...
