Choker - Ike Schwartz, Bk 5 Author:Frederick Ramsay Nick Reynolds, his pilot's rating barely a month old, drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it another tragic pilot error accident. No trace of the plane is found in the Bay's murky waters. — Ike Schwartz, erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, on vacation, is approached by Charlie Garland, an old C... more »IA friend, to look into the disappearance. The missing pilot was engaged to Charlie's niece and the family is not dealing well with the lack of closure. More importantly, Nick, just before his disappearance, Nick had placed a puzzling call to Charlie. leading him to conclude something more than pilot error might be involved in the disappearance.
So Charlie calls in his old friend, Ike, who's vacationing nearby. Ike's wide-eyed entry into a simple missing persons case soon catapults him into an international investigation with intimations of terrorism that could threaten the nation and its leaders.« less