Artie Wu and Quincy Durant, two former orphans who have learned their lesson, live on the beach in Malibu, California. When Artie Wu stumbles over a dead pelican while jogging, the two soon find themselves in the house of millionaire Randall Piers and his nymphomaniac wife. The investigators soon become entangled in a web of outstanding debts and old promises, woven by the dirty hands of the Mafia and the CIA. This is a revised reissue of the original German edition published in 1984.