When a bourbon-swilling Baptist preacher hires private
detective Lee Henry Oswald to recover a stolen file, Oswald
figures the job for a quick and painless infusion of cash.
But nothing comes easily in Dallas for anybody named Oswald,
especially when a psychopathic hit man from out of town
shows up, intent on finding the same scrap of missing
paper.
With the police after him for a murder he didn’t commit and
his every move shadowed by the strange mobster, Hank Oswald
gratefully accepts an extortion case in an effort to get out
of town for a few days. State Senator Eddie Black, the
tree-hugging black sheep of an oil-rich East Texas family,
has a problem. Somebody wants him to change his vote on an
important environmental bill. If he refuses, Black’s
long-time friend and his entire family will be killed, one
by one, starting with the oldest child, the head-strong Tess
McPherson.
In the aftermath of a bloody encounter with the mobster at
Tess McPherson’s apartment, Oswald finally realizes the
chilling connection between the two cases: a dead man named
Billy Barringer, Hank’s onetime best friend and the
firstborn son of an East Texas crime boss.
As the stakes mount, each treacherous step toward the
missing file forces Oswald to confront the haunting memory
of a split second decision which ultimately cost Billy
Barringer his life.
Now it looks like the dead man’s family has teamed up with
the new player in town, and everybody’s got Oswald in their
cross hairs. As the clock ticks down to a startling climax,
Oswald races across the mean streets of Dallas to find the
missing file and the secret it holds.
Once the file is found, the explosive discovery forces a
dangerous decision, one full of hard choices Oswald thought
had been left long ago in his murky past.
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