The Procession

About the book

Maxwell Carter, a fingerprint analyst at the criminal justice facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia, was supplementing his income by running a very simple scam whereby positive fingerprint matches in old crimes could be conveniently ignored in return for a small retainer. But then he caught a shark in his net - one that did not take too kindly to blackmail. Maxwells illicit career - and his life - were swiftly and brutally ended...

When Johnny Harrison is called in to investigate Maxwells grisly murder he quickly unearths a connection to an old child-murder in the bayous of Louisiana and the close-knit fishing community that work the Mississippi. Deciding to go undercover on one of the old trawlers, he digs into this alien world and starts to realise that he has stumbled on to something both sordid and enormously powerful, something that dates back 100 years into New Orleanss troubled history but could blow up Louisiana's present...