It is a perfect place to hide a little town called brawlton, Virginia, hard by the Bay. scott Craik is on the run. From the government, certainly, but also from himself. He had been involved as an agent in a covert operetion in Grenada, just before the invasion. it had been a popular political move, but Craik knows some things the government would sooner not let the public find out. And he’s done some things he would rather forget. The new life of a waterman , a Chesapeake fisherman and crabber, seems to offer escape.