In the last Monkeewrench book, Grace MacBride sailed off with retired FBI agent John Smith, leaving her co-workers and Detective Leo Magozzi behind. Life on the water has changed Grace. She wears sundresses and sandals instead of leather and boots. She has finally learned how to truly relax and let her guard down - until she wakes up one night to find two men holding a knife to John's throat.

In Minneapolis, Magozzi and partner Gino Rolseth struggle to find the link between the recent murders of Somali men in a neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu, while pondering whether or not to rake the fall leaves.

Grace returns to the Monkeewrench crew, putting their computing power into finding out who targeted John and why. Their investigation dovetails with the Minneapolis PD cases, leading Leo and Gino to a secluded cabin on a Native American reservation.

The mother-daughter writing team of P.J. Tracy has created another high adrenaline page-turner. Not the best in the series for the lack of character development and a plot that becomes transparent to the reader long before Monkeewrench and Magozzi figure it out, but a diverting adventure with well-placed humor that raises some thought-provoking issues about fighting for one's country.