Publisher's Synopsis
It's 1982. Rodney Pepper, a socially inept college drop-out, heads to New Orleans seeking to engulf himself in abject misery in the belief this would lead to Wisdom. Barely off the bus, Rodney is bequeathed an unexpected and unwanted pirate legacy. As he moves between dilapidated hotels and rooming houses, Rodney is preyed upon by agents of the cities underworld. Can he decipher a dead man's code before being swallowed by violence?
