A man alone takes to the road following the brutal murder of his wife. After years lost to drifting and isolation--except for the comfort of the kind of women he cannot deny--he finds himself swept into a world of violence and danger, his life in the hands of a madman. Freed by an unexpected savior, he returns to the road, still a haunted man who remains the target of his estranged daughter's scorn.

But as he wanders from the red-rock spires of Arizona to Sun Studios in Memphis, he succumbs to sordid temptation--and is soon accused of murder. To clear himself, he must find the real killer, unaware that his nemesis, a Wall Street power broker, is manipulating him from afar and has unleashed a killer on his trail--and the trail of his daughter.

The second novel in the Sam series, Jim Fusilli's Billboard Man pulls the drifter off the long, dark road once again--long enough for him to find that the world is small when so many people want him dead.