Heady Waters

Mike Hanigan a brilliant but chronically underachieving young attorney is drinking his way through a mundane daily existence as a judicial law clerk for a federal bankruptcy judge. But a grisly decapitation of a senator's lesbian daughter in Hanigan's hometown and the prodding of a fiery intelligent female colleague ignite a self-awakening in Hanigan thrusting him into the very heart of a murder investigation and shaking him free from a lifestyle of apathy and indifference. With timely assists from a casual but clever down-home homicide investigator an eccentric young minister and a hard-partying collection of rough-and-tumble river rats Hanigan helps untangle a murderous web of sex money and dirty politics and in the process unearths in himself a wellspring of passion and purpose.