An ex-army officer turned Montana private eye, C.W. Sughrue carries a lot of scars. He wants nothing more than to lie low and try to block out the memories of his last case, the one that left a bullet wound in his gut and his marriage a wreck. The last thing he wants to do is take on any business from his best friend, Dr. Will MacKinderick, a wealthy psychiatrist in their small town and probably the only person Sughrue still has faith in.But Mac is desperate. Convinced that one of seven patients is behind the theft of confidential psychoanalysis files from his office, he needs someone he can trust to trail this group of bizarre small-town misfits. Going against every last instinct, Sughrue takes the job - a twenty-thousand-dollar retainer is always hard to pass up - and things instantly spiral out of control as one by one the bodies start to pile up.Fueled by a steady stream of alcohol, drugs, and empty sex, Sughrue becomes a man obsessed, trying to stay one step ahead of the madness unfolding around him, but falling deeper and deeper into a case that will dig up parts of the past he'd like to forget and push any chance at a normal future even further out of reach. Read Less