After surviving the threat of a murderer and finding love with each other, George Martin and Mike Foster, best friends since childhood, are settling into a happy life. George's new promotion to the youngest captain in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office keeps him busy, and his current case is no exception. The body of a fifty-year-old drag queen is found in the locked dressing room of a bar.<br><br>As George delves into the subsequent murder investigation, he uncovers a dangerous trail of murdered drag queens and young gay men that intersects with another case involving porn films, torture, and worse. He struggles to make sense of the murders, but it's Mike who asks the question that leads to a break in the case.

Drag and Drop

Two hours later, Gregg called. The car with the two men and the bag had stopped at a rest area near Daytona Beach. Another car had pulled up beside it, and two men had gotten out of it and transferred the bag to their car. At that point, Gregg and his guys, with an assist from some local deputies, had arrested all four men and seized both cars and their contents. The bag had contained the remains of Leonard McPhail, or most of him—his throat had been cut, and his private parts were missing. All four men were on their way to Jacksonville and would spend the night in separate isolation cells. Leonard was on his way to the morgue, and the cars were being winched onto flatbed tow trucks for the trip back up I-95.


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