In the years following Hurricane Katrina, far from the manicured architecture and walking tours of touristed New Orleans, Jimmy Petrovich lingers, trapped by dead-end jobs, addiction, and self-abuse. The city is rebuilding, but its identity, like its people, has collapsed. Jimmy finds hope in Ron Dan--journalist, playboy, entrepreneur. Dan offers Jimmy work as a private investigator--his latest project is a biography of Walter "Mongoose" Johns, a...