Killing Alaska

Boatyard owner Phil McDermott wouldn't change a thing about his hometown of Homer, Alaska, a former hippie enclave sometimes called the "cosmic hamlet by the sea" where there is no industrial pollution, no freeway traffic, and very little street crime. When Ingrid Jensen, the tall and lovely, new Homer High School principal smiles his way, Phil is convinced nothing bad can ever happen here.

Homer's first gangland murder, a sex video, and the kidnapping of Phil's extravagantly pierced and tattooed, drug-abusing teenage granddaughter shine a new light on things. Turning for help from former CIA dark ops officer, Cosmo D'Angelo, Phil picks up a gun he hasn't fired in years. Together the two men set out to extract the girl from the lair of heavily armed drug dealers, and Phil finds out just how different things really are in the little town on the bay. 

He's not the most self-aware guy in the world, but even he's beginning to see that the thing that might have to change now is his thinking.