Neil Knight Private Dick
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He's relaxing in a hotel with his two dogs and a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon when she knocks on his door looking for help. For the next two months he connects with a hip hop record producer, a genius hillbilly coder and his MBA stripper wife, a gambling addict mayor, an alcoholic sheriff, an incontinent police lieutenant, an American Indian network engineer and a Santa Ana street gang . Welcome to the world of Neil Knight, Private Dick. If you like Elmore Leonard you're gonna love Peter Floyd.
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