Mark dialed his sister Rica s number and

heard the recorded message: "Miss Fred-

erica Riesman has met with a timely death.

Services will be held from the Frank E.

Campbell Funeral Chapel, interrer of the

stars, on..."

It was Riea s voice. Riea s bizarre

sense of humor. Mark didn t laugh. When

he rushed to her Upper West Side apart-

ment. Rica was gone. But what he found

there, in the wake of her " timely death."

was horrifying enough to make even the

New York Police Department shudder.

The answer to what Rica had done lay

in the kind of New York life she had

lived. Drugs. Tough singles bars. Quick

tricks. A mobster lover. Anything- and

anyone--to get the money she needed.

The money that would fi-ee her from a

life she hated, and a secret she had shared

with Mark since they were Iowa teen-

agers: a secret that now threatened to

destroy both brother and sister.

Mark is determined to find Rica stop

her before it is too late. A kilter heat

wave, the funeral of a famed comic, and

the frenzy surrounding a famous rock group turn the New York summer weekend into a surrealist nightmare.And in its glittering teilight.Rica makes her final move for freedom. At a Kennedy Airport boarding area. BROTHER & SISTER reaches its shattering climax,spilling its long-held secret in the agony and shock of its final words.