Terence McDonagh is a drug-soaked, gambling-addled detective prowling post-Katrina New Orleans, investigating the murder of five Senegalese immigrants. Crippled by debt, he keeps doubling down—snorting, shooting, and screwing his way through the wreckage, abusing his badge like it’s just another vice. As the city rots around him and his corruption deepens, a case involving the rape of a nun forces McDonagh to glance at the monster he’s become—if only for a moment, and possibly for the last time.