From the bestselling author of Lie to Me comes a novel of love redemption and felony theft - an uproarious, unforgettable caper set in New Orleans about a scam artist who teams up with a group of nuns to recover a stolen religious icon. James Joseph Pelikan rules the back wards of the New Orleans French Quarter from midnight to dawn. When his estranged nephew Charlie shows up in town, the old scam artist Pelikan immediately ensnares him in a magnum heist that gets Charlie pursued as a murder suspect and threatened by a high-class but crazy Creole doctor with his own twisted agenda.