"the Hawaii County Police are used to Rotten Roger sleeping rough, but now the veteran tramp has a new tent. The bloodstains in it don't bother Roger, but they are the last thing Detective Errol Coutinho needs to see. Coutinho is already looking for Rhonda Cunningham, a young woman from New Jersey who was last seen buying a high tech tent like Roger's. Rhonda planned to live off the grid in the rainforest of the Big Island, but her wealth stands in the way. Too many people want a piece of her to let her disappear. Some wish her well, some want her dead, most want hjer money, and one wants the thing she will never give. So whose blood is it in the tent? Coutinho's investigation will send him up against a hit man from New Jersey, a bunch of wannabe local gangsters, and his own nephew. An old girlfriend wants the best for her son, but she complicates the case even more, and a legendary marijuana trafficker proves both real and deadly. It's getting crowded int he rainforest, and the shakeout will be murder"--page [4] of cover.