Detective Holland must use his wits, wiles, and weaponry to help an old friend who has stolen antiquities to protect them from powerful forces with plans to sell them on the black market.

H. Max Hiller translates forty years in the hospitality industry and twenty years of living in New Orleans to create mysteries which use the food and settings of New Orleans to flavor and color mysteries which hinge on either the central character's cloudy past as a Tier-One operator or the city's struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina, often both.