What if you had only twenty-four hours to save the life of a friend?

The imminent murder of a former teammate -- a player in the violence-prone, big money game of Big Easy rap music -- is pulling ex-New Orleans Saints footballer-turned-blues historian Nick Travers into a world of fur-lined Bentleys and Cristal champagne.

This is an unfamiliar New South -- dirtier, deadlier, more vicious, where a music empire can fall in a sudden, bloody rain of bullets. And with the lives of a mogul and an angry teenage hip-hop prodigy at stake, Nick needs to put himself in the crossfire to find a missing $700,000 and a killer who's coming too close.