The Canyon Caper

Gritting her teeth, PATRICIA MARSHALL, tough-minded, self-confident commercial design consultant, hires HARRY HAMILTON, laid-back, risk-averse private investigator, out of desperation to solve the mystery of her missing brother, JIMMY, a U. S. State Department low-level functionary, or so she thinks. She and Hamilton embark on an investigative adventure that has them dueling with State Department officials, the FBI, and foreign espionage agents. Marshall is determined to solve the mystery of Jimmy’s disappearance in Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) despite risks to her life and Hamilton’s.

Hamilton takes the case for his designs on Marshall and convinces her to go to Washington DC to question State Department personnel and Jimmy’s friends. She discovers a brother she really didn’t know who led a life beyond her wildest imagination. They head to GCNP where they become entangled in a complicated State Department operation that nearly costs them their lives.

Park Ranger SCOTT CANTRELL enters Marshall’s life as a manipulated source of top secret government information she believes she needs to solve the case. He falls in love with her, and that complicates her life, now torn between friendship with Hamilton and a possible future with Cantrell. Her adventure ends with an outcome that contradicts everything she believed about her and Hamilton’s contribution to national security.