Frank Carlson Library

An unclassified death on the coroner's daily record is nothing special: a healthy young man found dead after an apparent fall from a ladder. Yet in a neglected old house set inside a jungle of greenery, Detective Skip Langdon listens to an unusually listless mother talk about her son's death and his empty life...and wonders. It seems the shy thirty-one-year-old victim, Geoff Kavanagh, was a computer genius who often frequented the TOWN, a computer...

On leave from the police force, Skip Langdon embarks on a personal crusade to prevent churchman Errol Jacomine from being elected mayor of New Orleans. For Langdon, Jacomine is evil masquerading as the Christian right.