Introducing Bubba Mabry a tough, comical private eye who's happy to get thirty bucks an hour acting as a security guard for some celebrity. In this case it's the king himself, back from the dead and determined to keep a low profile - the one and only ELVIS.

While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, "I'd like to confess." But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life-spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men's intertwined lives....