Someone's trying to kill PI Jimmy "Soldier" Riley. And he's inclined to let them. But before sleeping the big sleep and journeying to the undiscovered country to see what dreams may come, there's blood work to be done.

Picking up right at the thrilling conclusion of "The Big Goodbye," "The Big Beyond" finds Jimmy near death with one hell of a score to settle and more than a few injustices to square along the way—all while searching wartime Panama City for a dangerous serial killer who combines art and murder.

What really happened to Soldier and Lauren the night they left town? Did they survive? Will their love? What comes after saying the big goodbye? Is there anything out there in the big beyond?

Stylish, retro, and highly entertaining, Michael Lister's "The Big Beyond" continues the romantic, mysterious, adventures of one of the most interesting and compelling classic hard-boiled detectives to come along in a very, very long time.

"Michael Lister delivers the goods like Tyson in his prime, hard, fast and beautiful kind of brutal." Gary Phillips