One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, talented fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home and was shot by cops, who had mistaken him for a purse snatcher. When the predictable cover-up starts, a group of black activists decide that the time has come for action against a corrupt city government. Marvel Atkins, their leader, links up with Kidd, the man with the plan to bring the city tumbling like the pack of Tarot cards he likes to consult....

Computer whiz and professional criminal Kidd and his partner LuEllen investigate the murder of Kidd's old friend and hacker Bobby and the disappearance of his laptop, which contains secrets about Bobby's friends and colleagues, including Kidd.