While wrestling with guilt over having accidentally killed an MMA opponent in a sparring session, private detective Cliff St. James assists New Orleans Police in investigating the murder of a US government “black projects” engineer.

St. James quickly uncovers a murky netherworld of seedy arms dealers, shifty intelligence agents, fast-talking thieves, and shady scrap sellers. Sensitive state-of-the-art weaponry and high technology appears to be changing hands; the kind of technology that a foreign government would do anything to obtain.

As the bodies pile up, St. James fights for his life and sanity as he struggles to solve the murders and undermine a treacherous espionage conspiracy.

“Outstanding…powerful prose that evokes a city still struggling to recover its infrastructure and identity elevates this well beyond most other contemporary PI novels.”
—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

“More high crimes and misdemeanors in this edgy new Cliff St. James thriller!”
—RANDALL FITZGERALD, FORMER ROVING EDITOR OF READER’S DIGEST

“Kovacs (Storm Damage, 2011) maintains a fast pace, and his descriptions of a steamy, seamy, badly managed city that is failing to recover from Katrina are jolting and plausible.”
—BOOKLIST

“With so many twists and turns, even the most devoted noir fan may wish they had a map. But it’s well worth trying to find the way.”
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