Plot Summary

They killed Keith in the early afternoon, sending Davey running for his life. Both guided and misguided by the bewildering content of a taped message, Davey scrambles to find his dead friend's sea-chest and to discover its mysterious, lethal contents.

He finds himself in a race with others who are after Keith's chest, people for whom abduction and torture are all in a day's work. Forces on both sides of the law seem to want the contents of Keith's chest to stay buried, under bodies if necessary.

While searching for Keith's sea-chest, Davey seeks within himself the courage and determination to follow the obscure, narrow, and treacherous path upon which Keith had set him, never knowing if it's the path to safety or simply another dead end.