"Travis McGee had never seen a man so changed by one year of life. Arthur Wilkingson had been an amiable and decent young man looking to invest some of his considerable inheritance in a marina enterprise. Then a pretty blond woman named Wilma Ferner showed up. She was soon Mrs. Wilkingson, and it only took her twelve months to rob Arthur of his fortune-and his pride. McGee thinks he just may be able to get Arthur's money back, but he'll have to penetrate the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and the mind of a violently twisted con man, to earn his usual fee and salvage his friend's life ..."--Page 2 of cover.