Product Description PAPERBACK NOW OUT OF PRINT. REVISED AND RELEASED FOR KINDLE 2/2014. Rock and Roll Reunions Can Be Murder! Portland's Tie-dyed Detective Cracks Another Case. (The sequel to THE HARD KARMA SHUFFLE) When The Velvet Miasma self-destructed on stage in the mid seventies, band members vowed they'd never perform together again. But it's 1998, retro is in, and a reunion means big bucks. Thor, the band's egocentric leader, recruits aging hippie Paladin to dry out the lead guitar player and persuade sexy Maggie Thunder to return to the stage. Paladin's son replaces a keyboard player blown up on a Mexican drug boat. It's Eugene's big break. Then Thor moves in on his girl. When someone beats Thor to death with a guitar, Eugene is the prime suspect. With the help of Scan Man, Socks, and a cross-dressing plumber, Paladin and his zoned-out friends muddle their way through a swamp of dirty secrets on way to truth, justice, and a killer who gives new meaning to the term "off the charts." Review Another smash hit for Nettleton & Rose. Paladin is a character I can fully relate to, even in this day and age. --Deb Staples, Editor & Publisher About the Author Mike Nettleton is the author of The Shotgun Kiss and co-author of DRUM WARRIOR, DEATH AT DEVIL'S HARBOR, DECEPTION AT DEVIL'S HARBOR, THE HARD KARMA SHUFFLE, and THE CRUSHED VELVET MIASMA. He grew up in Bandon and Grants Pass, Oregon. A stint at a college station in Ashland led to a multi-state radio odyssey with on-air gigs in Oregon, California, and New Mexico under the air name Mike Phillips. In 1989 he returned to the Northwest and in 1994 joined KEX Radio in Portland. Recently retired, his hobbies are golf, pool, Texas hold-em poker, and community theater productions. Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, the se