Island Quarry — Ernest Herndon

Carl Connolly, a reporter in New Orleans blows the lid off an international drug ring -- only to discover that the drug lord has a particularly strong sense of vengeance. Connolly finds there is a contract out on his head, so, assisted by his editors, he starts off on an extended vacation to his boyhood home of Okinawa, hoping to shake his would-be assassin.But eveil, he soon finds, has a long reach.And Connolly's background as a tough-guy journalist does little to help him withstand the haunting spiritual forces of his past -- or far more hostile elements of the present. This is suspense fiction at its best -- with a spiritual twist.