Underground Reading: Cinnamon Skin by John D MacDonald

Cinnamon Skin begins in a land of nervous tension. Travis is even in a kinship with Annie Renzetti, although she's making noises about putting her "career" over her "beach-bum boyfriend who doesn't need to commit". Meyer is incredibly shaken up around the end of Free Fall. Essentially, Travis didn't clue Meyer in to the fact that he had a small legion of biker assassins on-side, so as events unfolded, Meyer felt that a) he had betrayed Travis and b) was certainly going to die.