Into the Same River Twice

Plot

It is before dawn on a Sunday morning. Loren Mensing, visiting professor at New York University School of Law, is awakened by a phone call out of nowhere from a woman who, almost a quarter century ago, had vanished from his life without a trace. Now, she's discovered something that could easily kill her and begs for his help. Loren joins ambiguous forces with an NYPD cop, and their journey leads Loren to a brutal murder on the night-bound streets of Greenwich Village, to the waterfront of St. Louis, to a hospital for the criminally insane, and finally to an honors ceremony back at NYU with U.S. Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun as guest speaker. Meanwhile, private eye Val Tremaine risks death and disfigurement to save Loren - the man she's loved ever since they met in Nevins's 1978 novel Corrupt and Ensnare - even though she knows that if she succeeds he may leave her for the woman who's obsessed him for more than twenty years.