While investigating an oil tanker collision in San Francisco Bay, Ronan O'Neill, a decorated Coast Guard officer, sees Coast Guard lawyer-investigators stymied by high priced civilian attorneys. With that motivation, after leaving the service he moves to San Francisco to go to law school. Ronan must navigate his way to become a full-fledged lawyer as two women vie for his attention, all complicated by a series of life-altering cataclysmic decisions. Sausalito, by attorney-author Patrick Hagan, is a smart, unusually-creative read that you won't want to put down.