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A successful banker must have more wealth -- for his peace of mind. He drifts into the international black market in human organs. Then he devises a new illegal enterprise on the fringes of this. Equally compulsive about philandering, he makes a few too many enemies. Although the pivot of this story, he does not dominate it. There also are his wife and her detectives, his girlfriend, irate husbands, his brother, his partners in crime, his only real friend, and international investigators. Of them all, he is the most consistently charming, the most entrepreneurial, and the most obsessed. Someone else, though, has persistence -- and an itch. The hare and the tortoise, redux, but not quite .

Deckle McLean was a newspaper and magazine journalist and then a journalism professor. He has written journalism on education, politics, law, and popular culture; and academic articles and books related to mass communications law. He also has written several mystery novels. Born in New Jersey, he graduated from Harvard University and Boston College Law School. He has been asked whether he always wanted to write mysteries. His reply is no. He took up mystery-writing as his retirement from teaching approached. He found he liked it. It provided a flexible genre that could embrace a universe of observations. He has a website, ldmclean.com.