Detective Cadillac Holland is asked to find out why someone is trying to buy an entire neighborhood in New Orleans'' poorest part of town during an election year. The Lower Ninth Ward has always been at the bottom of the list for improvements and services by the City Council, who seem a little too comfortable with the number of rebuilding projects that have suddenly sprung up in a part of town nobody previously cared much about. Gentrification isn''t illegal, but it threatens to once again displace people who only recently made their way home after Hurricane Katrina. What Detective Holland finds threatens to stir the waters in Louisiana''s most famous political swamp, and Cadillac soon finds there are harder things to fight than alligators.