In New Orleans, a well-known restaurateur is killed and his family disappears. The case takes detective Skip Langdon on a tour of the seamy underside of the city's respectable society. By the author of New Orleans Beat.
On leave from the police force, Skip Langdon embarks on a personal crusade to prevent churchman Errol Jacomine from being elected mayor of New Orleans. For Langdon, Jacomine is evil masquerading as the Christian right.