"It's 1947. An enigmatic man driving a fine new Lincoln convertible and accompanied by a beautiful blonde comes to a small West Texas city. Ostensibly, his purpose is to get into a poker game that has been going on every weekend for over half a century at the ancient Weilbach Hotel, the area's premier hostelry. But as the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that he has a deeper and darker motive, one that centers on a wealthy but sinister local banker named Clifton Robillard. Aided by an old-time hood named Chicken Little, a famous Okie cockfighter and moonshiner, the protagonist maneuvers Robillard toward a shattering climax in which we discover that nothing is what it seems to be."–BOOK JACKET.