New York: Avon, (1998). Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel, set in the Everglades in the early twentieth century. This follows the feud between two men - -outlaw John Ashley and lawman Bobby Baker - based on real events of the Ashley gang, who were involved in rum-running, turf battles with the Chicago mob, as they became the most notorious family in southern Florida. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-380974932.