Everyone knows the tabloid Hamptons–wealth, white beaches and beautiful people. But it’s also a place where the strange and powerful store their secrets. And where the locals live, work and try to make sense of it all. Their stories reveal a Hamptons you never hear about. This is one of them. All Sam Acquillo wants–ex-boxer, ex-corporate exec and accidental hero of The Last Refuge–is to hammer a few nails, drink lots of vodka, hang out with his mutt Eddie and stay out of trouble. But trouble seems to find him anyway–this time with a bang. A very big bang.What’s left when the smoke clears is one very dead financial consultant–Jonathan Eldridge–his agoraphobic widow, punked-out office assistant and a lot more questions than answers…one being what to do with Sam’s buddy Jackie Swaitkowski, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.Sam’s deepest desire is to stay clear of the whole thing. But town cop Joe Sullivan and Paul Hodges, philosopher, bartender and purveyor of indefinable seafood–will have none of it. A reluctant knight errant in a ‘67 Grand Prix, Sam soon finds himself tangling with a scrap-metal baron and self-styled gangster, an imperious restaurateur, the widow’s devoted lawyer, tight-lipped law enforcement, and most confounding of all, Jonathan Eldridge;s decidedly wacked-out brother, an artist with ambitions as big as his entourage.But it’s Sam’s almost-lover, now next-door neighbor, the beautiful Amanda Anselma who’s the most dangerous of all–for reasons even Sam won’t truly understand until it’s too late.
