Wyatt Storme quit the NFL at the peak of his game, because the continuous attention of the fans left him no private life. Wyatt, a fugitive from society's fast lane, is vacationing in Paradise County, Missouri, amid the beautiful Ozark Mountains, when he stumbles into a drug ring - one in which powerful local residents are implicated. It becomes clear that plans are under way to make a new extremely addictive narcotic, "dreamsicle," and somebody in Paradise County is hatching the plans.

Storme, when curiosity gets the best of him, finds himself in the center of the action along with an ad-hoc partner, the puzzling former Vietnam hero Chick Easton. More perceptive than the local police, courageous (and foolhardy) enough to stand up to an assortment of hardened underworld criminals, Wyatt and Chick strike into dangerous territory searching for the heart of the trouble.

Genre: Mystery