They'd been small-town friends partying through high school, marrying girls in their graduation class, having buddy weekends camping and fishing into their early thirties. Then they disappeared, leaving behind wives with differing emotions about wanting to ever see them again. What happened to the missing four? The setting is Plattsmouth, Nebraska, a city with historic significance at the confluence of the Missouri and Platte rivers. As the search for the missing men unfolds in this suspenseful, psychologically intense tale, it reveals, layer-by-layer, complicated relationships among the four men, their wives, their entwined pasts, quirky local law enforcement officials, the city's knotty history involving the Winnebago tribe and other Native Americans, a 19tth-century gold rush, present-day gold fever and a search for it on sunken ships, the Omaha Mob, a torrid affair one of the wives dares to have in a bizarre casino hotel, mysterious deaths and murders, shady characters and crooked investors, a cybershaman, and much more. The startling conclusion will surprise even the most cynical, clue-savvy, eagle-eyed readers!
