Prologue Atlanta never sleeps. From Roswell to Jonesboro, from Smyrna to Stone Mountain. The Big Peach hums and roars twenty-five hours a day. The city has seen its share of movie stars, moguls, and mobsters. Saints and sinners living, loving, and dying in the mosquito-filled swampy air of this global hub of humanity. Most of the people living in The City of Trees are decent folk who mind their manners and do their jobs. But, as with any mixed barrel, sometimes a rotten apple gets down in the middle of things and causes a spreading blight of trouble. That’s when the good citizens of Atlanta call on Dirk Knight, Private Eye.