'Cutdown' is a thriller that takes place in California, from the slums of San Francisco to the northern redwood forests. Claude McCutcheon, a former paratrooper with reflexes honed in Vietnam and a lifetime supply of sordid memories is a lawyer now, but one not exactly cut from the corporate cloth; he works the cases - and the hours - he wants, and takes guff from nobody.
McCutcheon gets tangled up in a mystery that stretches all the way from Africa and the closing days of World War II to the redwood forests of Northern California. Stolen documents, a beautiful and dangerous woman, a nasty-mouth stool pigeon, a dead cat, a drug dealer and a whole cast of characters as vibrant as any you'll ever find. At the head of that list is McCutcheon himself - one of the most independent, strong-willed characters you'll ever come across.
