There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans nightand it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell, and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disappearance of a militant woman activist is about to set Griffin on a roller-coaster careening towards rock bottomcarrying the brilliant, tormented black P.I. ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives and more brutally than he ever imagined possible.