Mike becomes embroiled in the Patty Hearst kidnap case when he discovers the missing man he seeks was invited to join the Symbionese Liberation Army, the ragtag revolutionary group who kidnapped Hearst. Mike navigates feelings for an admired female FBI agent and gets caught in the web of a voracious nymphomaniac, half-sister to the missing man. Mike doctors up murder scenes and chases links from the man-child movement to change age-of-consent laws, precursor to NAMBLA. The 15th in the series, set in Portland and Berkeley, California in 1974.