Private Detective and retired counterintelligence officer Art Hardin usually stays away from the flashy kind of PI work, paying his bills by doing surveillance, checking up on false disability claims, and the like. So when the senior partner one of the premier legal firms in Grand Rapids approaches Hardin about a job protecting his niece from her soon to be ex husband for a couple of days, Hardin isnt exactly eager to take on the job, not the least because the niece herself is under house arrest pending a murder investigation of her former boss. and the sudden disappearance of eleven million dollars.

Jack accompanies the self-styled "U.S. Grant"—an old college buddy—and his regional wrestling promotion on their fall tour in hopes of sniffing out the mystery and escaping his troubled past...and to avoid any more harrowing run-ins with the deadly Aesir gang. Struggling with a budding romance, the specter of his college-era mistakes, and the undercurrents of a fanatic pro wrestling fandom, some of whom may just be willing to kill, Jack soon finds himself dragged into the limelight—and squarely into the crosshairs of his most dangerous enemies.