Someone is cheating at bass fishing competitions, and people are getting killed. Enter R.J. Decker, former photojournalist and ex-con. Decker teams up with Skink, an unbelievable character who lives in a forest shack, eats road-killed animals, and reads Dostoyevsky (and turns out to be the ex-governor of Florida). Decker's an unlikely hero, always a step behind. Other characters include the usual corrupt TV evangelists, rednecks, smart black policemen,...

Private detective Brian Keyes becomes mixed up in a morass of football players, politicians, police, fanatics, and one hungry crocodile when he sets out to discover who killed loyal Shriner Theodore Bellamy and Sparky Harper, president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.