Born in Washington, D.C., Steven J. Wangsness is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer whose assignments included Italy, Antigua, Lithuania, Ireland and Jamaica as well as Washington, D.C. He lives in Seattle.
Detective Rick Frost washes up in the sleepy Los Angeles exurb of Santa Isidora after being cashiered by the LAPD. An everyday murder investigation draws Frost into a web of corruption that stretches from the salons of Beverly Hills to the Green Zone of Baghdad and quickly pits him against powerful forces that even the Feds fear to disturb.