Wake Turbulence

It looked like a random drug related killing, but Grif McNab's best friend refuses to believe it. Griffin McNab, washed out astronaut, returned to his small hometown in rural Northern California for the serenity of country life. At the request of his friend he reluctantly agrees to look into the killing of a street person. As he resurrects skills and contacts from his post-NASA years as an Air Force investigator, McNab experiences pushback from the authorities and other mysterious powers that seems all out of proportion to his inquiry. McNab gathers information from his small town network -- backwoods pot grower, librarian, environmentalist, a past love interest, failing emu farmer, and Tibetan monks on a sacred mission. And he finds that sleepy Euphrates is a nexus not only of small town secrets but national, and even international, intrigue. Beset on all sides by forces he doesn't understand, and tied to a quest he cannot quit, his life crumbles and mortal danger for him and his allies becomes all too real.