As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent City--and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it--there's an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid.