Gambling is coming to Paradise Beach Florida. Real estate mogul Derek Clymer is building a new city for the purpose. Soon it becomes apparent that Derek has picked the wrong team for the job. Jake Terrebonne is skimming. Billy Hunt is too honest. An investigative reporter is smelling around and Bert Weems, local fixer, has a problem. Of course it is nothing that money cannot solve and as this book opens we find Bert abortively engaged at making his problem worse. It all could have been so easy. While his future spirals towards the drain Bert compounds his mistake again and again until the problem becomes simply a man named Bertram Weems. Not to worry though, Jimmy 'Blue' Terrebonne is good at solving problems. He's been making them permanently disappear for years. Unbeknownst to all, Winter Hawk Ridge of the Apalachee nation prepares to take a stand as a great storm moves across the warm Gulf waters. This fast paced adventure / crime novel moves from the Redneck Riviera to the Atchafalaya swamps as the antagonists get their due and two unlikely protagonists emerge.