Copperhead Canyon

Jessica Hahn has been fired as senior investigative journalist at the Seattle Chronicle, and her editor, Harry Dryden, is fired along with her. Their careers are over; but Jessica’s having none of it and neither is Harry.Funded by Harry, she chases a potential news story, and on acquiring evidence of a professional hit that took down two retired mining engineers in an L.A park, he hires ex-Justice Department investigator, Arnie Krench to work with her.Discovering a political connection, Jessica heads to Washington D.C. where a U.S. senator and a formidable, deep-state official get involved, but the matter of who to trust becomes impossible. Meanwhile, Arnie pursues a new lead in California, using his contacts at the Justice Department, where he encounters not only deceit but betrayal.As the risk increases in L.A., Harry tells Jessica to pull Arnie from the investigation. She doesn’t. And when Arnie goes missing, she must take a decision that could either save him or kill him. Fighting overwhelming guilt at putting her story ahead of Arnie’s safety, she takes the chance.What follows is nothing like she expected.