For investigator Jack MacLeod, life changes on a wintry night, when a deathbed confession leaves him with a ledger, a girl and a deadly secret. Now the dying man has disappeared, the girl is dead, and the ledger may just get him killed. On the banks of the South River, the half-century-old killing in Dallas has come back to haunt the present -- bringing with it Vietnamese hard-cases, federal agents, Jesuit priests, White House power-mongers, conspiracy theorists, violence and death. Plus a gang of ATM hijackers intent on killing their way to a fortune. Macleod is stuck in the middle of two cases -- both deadly, both complicated. And to stay alive, he may have to intertwine the two. And, at the end, figure out who really did kill President John F. Kennedy.