Newly graduated Louisiana State Police Inspector Cooter Holland has been gone from his beloved hometown for too long. He has lost his local Yat accent and finds himself patrolling a city that Hurricane Katrina left nearly unrecognizable. Years as a Tier-One operator in the War on Terror have left him with emotional and physical scars, but also skills and intuition he is eager to redirect to fighting the wave of crime that the storm brought to New Orleans. NOPD Chief of Detectives Bill Avery puts the troubled veteran on the trail of a fugitive who shot two men in self-defense with a stolen pistol. Detective Holland pursues the truth behind the shooting harder than he does his quarry and points Chief Avery to a criminal enterprise even more dangerous than the man we was sent to find.