A TEAR ON THE WATER is the third novel in the New Orleans Rhapsody anthology. Wesley Sager is MI-6's most talented secret service agent. He is acknowledged as the only equal to Jules Grey in the world. However, unlike Grey who has as his partner the BND's Grafin Karran von Lehndorff, Sager works alone. He is transported from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in handcuffs with a hood over his head and is charged by the district attorney there with conspiracy to commit mass murder. While this is going on, a New York novelist decides to accept a teaching position at Tulane after his wife tries to separate his head from his shoulders with a German straight razor. And then there is Joe, the butcher's son, who wants to be a writer but must first come to terms with the classmate he abandoned and allowed to drown on a very cold night several years before. These and other stories work themselves out in the pages of A TEAR ON THE WATER. Like all of the author's works, it is an adult novel written only for the most mature readers.