Behind a remote lodge overlooking Crescent City California, stands a mysterious lookout tower used to signal the shoreline and ships at sea. The signals coordinate marijuana shipments. Mike seeks two women missing from the same area. Were they abducted by a drug cartel? Mike comes in contact with weird personalities, including a professional wrestler, a wide-eyed motel desk man, a blonde with a past who plays him for a sap, and an ex-Nazi who the US government has installed in a group exploring biological warfare, Operation Paperclip. He follows the husband of one of the missing women and discovers the remote lodge and lookout tower. He sneaks inside and eavesdrops on the group's nasty plan. He joins forces with the FBI to raid the lodge headquarters but ignores orders to stay back. Adult situations and language. Number 19 in the series set in Portland, Eugene, Bandon and Crescent City in 1978.