N'Awlins Confidential

Fast paced read drenched with action and exotic port-of-calls. Joe Hancock, stricken with worry, phones Hackney McTrite. The suspicious death of an old flame and their torrid relationship threatens his Shangri La. He's marrying wealthy angel Laura who he met on a train going to US Air Force basic training. She wouldn't tolerate wild oats he'd sewn seven years earlier. Well, adroit McTrite shoulders the task of keeping Hancock out of the loop. Then McTrite heads for London to testify in the attempted murder trial of killer Ralph Shaw. Shaw's escape adds a background of intrigue.