<p>Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton has finally learned to hit—or so it seems to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father is hired to prove that Pepper did not kill his sister with a baseball bat. A boyhood hero of Moroni’s Pepper is living potbellied proof that the past like everything else just ain’t what it used to be.</p><p>While the Mormons use computers and private security men to keep tabs in their town and Moroni’s former girlfriend pulls a paternity suit on Moroni’s father the case of the ex-shortstop and his murdered sister is growing more sinister all the time. With a religious fanatic a slick church lawyer and an old ballplayer’s lifelong dream involved Moroni knows this is a story about how the road to glory is paved with blood.</p>