Flame — John Lutz

The frightened old man in Carver's office said he was Bert Renway -- a Florida pensioner hired to impersonate wealthy meat magnate Frank Wesley. Moments later, he was nobody -- just a charred corpse blown to unrecognizable bit The cops claimed the victim was indeed Wesley, and had the dental records to prove it.

Fred Carver knows he's playing with fire this time...and that his investigation into the suncoast netherworld of drugs, conspiracy, murder and fundamentalist assassins is bound to get him burned...and bad.