Undertow

Samuel King calculates risk for a living—policy numbers, claim forms, actuarial tables. But nothing in his Houston office prepared him for Port Sorrow, Louisiana, where a captain drowned on calm seas, a widow demands answers, and the sheriff smiles like a man with something buried deep in the bayou. The shrimp trawler was in perfect condition. The debts were staggering. And every road out of this crumbling fishing town leads straight through enemy territory.