There's a nasty nest of reptiles living at Serpent Point: A famous senator getting ready to make his long-awaited run for the Presidency, despite his wayward wife and corrupt chief of staff. A noted crime boss running the mob while trying to raise his teen-age daughter. An Irish rock star and two dueling businessmen. And all of them are connected to a fatal construction accident at Boston's Big Dig tunnel project. Over the course of a Cape Cod summer, their lives, secrets and stories intertwine until the stunning conclusion of this superb page-turner.