Sometimes you're better off dead.
"You can run, you can hide but you can never leave your past behind." It's been eleven years since Detroit Municipal Police Detective Gil Nelson first infiltrated Detroit's underground pleasure drug operations, and he's had enough. Now retired from the force, he's become a successful novelist by writing about the mind-bending crimes he once solved. However, Nelson's newly laid-back lifestyle is put on hold when he's called on to help investigate the murder of a narcotics dealer who washed ashore on a California beach along with millions of dollars of A-grade cocaine. Nelson takes on the case but quickly realizes this is no ordinary investigation--because the murdered drug dealer was someone the Feds declared dead five years ago. You can't die twice, or can you?