<p><strong>College professor Thomas Martindale returns to the scene of his debut as an amateur sleuth the Yaquina Head lighthouse on Oregon's central coast in Yaquina White</strong>. The white of the title stands for cocaine and that is what a murderous drug gang is importing into the state.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Martindale's career is in tatters due to his arrest on a bogus murder charge</strong>. Fleeing Oregon to escape from the leader of a murderous drug gang he joins a media tour of the Arctic only to face new dangers from Russian border guards and the crew of a ship smuggling a secret cargo over the North Pole to Pacific coast cities.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Tom has a final deadly encounter with the drug lord at the lighthouse from which only one of them will walk away.</strong></p>