CAT’S PAW, INC.

“That’s me, Arrow Investigations. I wanted to change the name to Cat’s Paw, Inc., but my sister said no one would get it. It’s from an old fable about a cat sleeping by a fire where a monkey was roasting some chestnuts. When the nuts were done, the monkey used the cat’s paw to pull them out of the fire so he wouldn’t burn his own fingers. People hire me, Zack Smith, to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. This time I have to track down a fourteen-year-old runaway, Jessica. Her trail leads to the streets of Portland, where pimps, drug dealers, and pornographers offer runaways an illusory security in exchange for their innocence–and sometimes their lives….”