In this, the 6th book of the series, Thorn takes on a childhood friend, who seems to be running some kind of scam pain facility. He takes in people who have lost the use of their legs and experience "phantom pain", but he's under investigation by the Feds for perhaps laundering money. Thorn himself becomes a patient and enmeshed in old grievances.

Perhaps my favorite Thorn book since the first. It was an interesting subject, one that predates oxycontin but almost predicts it. Hard to read sometimes, listening to their pain. But hearing things from the bad guys point of view didn't feel quite so weird and jarring. And the plans weren't as complicated as before, but equally twisted.

The fact he was a long time childhood friend, and his friend's father is a long time doctor of Thorn himself was a little hard to swallow. I realize the Keys are probably a small place, but that seems a little ridiculous. But Thorn's relationship with Monica, carried over from the previous book, was bumpy and interesting. I wonder where it will go?

So on to the next book in the series, Blackwater Sound. Pretty funny, as I was just about ready to give up on the series, but these last two books have been pretty good.