The folks in Saint Angelique, Louisiana, have a good laugh when some know-it-all kid shows up, demanding directions to Bayou Noir, where, legend has it, pirate Jean Lafitte buried his treasure. The fortune-hunter is Matthew Chadwick, son of none other than the Louisiana senatorwho's sent Longarm down to find him.
The boy's pretty cousin Natalie is worried about him tooand insists on joining Longarm. Now the lawman's got to sludge through the sticky marsh, steer clear of Cajun bulletsand protect a luscious treasure worth more than some make-believe loot...