Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie are young musicians, in love and on the run, and their families are rival powers in Louisiana’s criminal underworld. Dave Robicheaux goes looking for them and soon crosses Isolde’s father, who puts out a contract on him and Clete Purcel. The assassin arrives by ghost ship and can make a man see things that are not there. To stop him, Robicheaux must face the demons of a lifetime.
