Specializing mostly in finding missing people, the case of a life time takes Jamaica and Joe on a roller coaster ride through the streets of New York, to the Caribbean, Key West and Las Vegas. In order to show his son a good time he enlist the help from a New York City Police Captain, a local mobster, an ex-CIA operative, an FBI agent and an Admiral in the United States Navy.
The case starts as any normal missing persons case until his client is crushed to death by a dump truck of hot asphalt. The novel picks up speed from that first encounter and does not stop until we arrive back in New York City where Jamaica's son, Joe, must make his decision about college or a life as a private eye.