An inexperienced detective from the working-class side of Hawaii's Big Island, Kawika Wong has the chance of a lifetime when Ralph Fortunato, the Mainland developer of an unpopular resort on the island's tourist side, is found murdered on a luxury golf course, an ancient Hawaiian spear driven through his heart. With the other detectives tied up with a string of grisly killings, Captain Terry Tanaka has no choice but to send Kawika to investigate. With his father and girlfriend to help, Redman uncovers a cache of secrets reaching far back to the Island's ancient past. And the journalist who found the body has her own theories about Fortunato's demise-- but do they line up with the evidence? -- adapted from jacket
