Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and
an occasional unlicensed P.I. who
does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when his
girlfriend’s daughter asks him to help her father Jason
Truhler,
the ex-husband of McKenzie’s girlfriend, and a man in
serious
trouble. En route from St. Paul to a Canadian blues
festival on
Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke hours
later in
a strange motel, with the girl’s murdered body on the floor.
Slipping away unnoticed and heading home, he thought he’d
got
away—until he started getting texts with photos of the body
and
demands for blackmail payments he couldn’t pay.
McKenzie soon finds that Truhler was set up in a modified
honey trap, designed to blackmail him. But Truhler’s version
wasn’t exactly the truth either. And McKenzie now finds
himself
trapped in the middle of a very dangerous game with some of
the most powerful men in the state on one side and some of
the
deadliest on the other.