Armand Croft

Hammer Jack Armand Croft

San Francisco is shocked when the incinerated body of John "HammerJack" Marteau, the linebacker for the Fortyniners, is found in his burned out SUV at the bottom of a ravine. Andrew MacCrimmon has other problems-he is recovering from a four month bout of morbid depression following a near-fatal gunshot wound, and his marriage is disintegrating-but he is drawn into the case when a chance encounter with Marteau's dental tech convinces him the body is not Marteau's, that this is a life insurance scam. If so, whose body is it? And who's involved? In the end, the conspirators strongly resent his meddling.