Caleb P. Johnson

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

障害を抱えながらも驚異的な記憶力を持つ私立探偵のライオネル・エスログの人生の恩人であり、唯一の友人でもあるボスのフランク・ミナが殺害された。事件の真相を探るべく、エスログがハーレムのジャズクラブ、ブルックリンのスラム街と大都会の闇に迫っていく。わずかな手掛かり、天性の勘、そして行動力を頼りに事件を追うエスログがたどり着いたのは、腐敗した街でもっとも危険と称される黒幕の男だった。

膨れ上がる借金と激しさを増す取り立てに、命さえも危ぶまれる状況の中、口先だけで生きてきたニューヨークの宝石商は、すべてを賭けて一獲千金を狙う。