Jacket blurb: Daniel Profit is a man no one in New Orleans likes and everyone wants to know. He's the main man, the pipeline to some of the finest cocaine around. But Profit is weary. He's tired of the life of a dealer and dreams of making one big, final score. All he needs to bring it off is the extra security that someone skilled in protection and killing can provide. Profit needs someone like Sheen ... Sheen Vicedomini is an ex-New Orleans street cop who had to leave the force after a few too many bodies started showing up on his beat. Sheen has a talent for violence and a need to break out of his nine-to-five trap. All he needs is the extra excitement that someone skilled in designer drugs and double dealing can provide. Sheen needs someone like Profit ...
Colbert writes with striking authority and a total absence of moralizing--The New Yorker/October 13, 1986.
This is a novel in which the pace and suspense are sustained from beginning to end--Durrant's, London/29 October 1987