A truckload of toxic chemicals crashes into Tampa Bay, a bank president's son and a senator's daughter die after smoking weed at a fraternity party, and the publisher of a weekly entertainment rag accuses the cops of murder. As one of the EPA's top investigators, Derk Bryan refuses to accept the ME's conclusion that the spill was an accident and that these events are not related. With three monster hurricanes on a collision course with Florida, Bryan races against the clock and the bureaucracy to uncover the clues in this ecological crossword puzzle.