"The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years ... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends...Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure. We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, now Chief of Police and still obsessing over the identity of the man his wife might have been having an affair with before she died in a freak accident...Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, who also has a pressing wife problems...and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upwards might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond---a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office---as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station."-- Provided by publisher.