The Axman of New Orleans

<p>Based on the true story...</p><p> </p><p>Detective Colin Fitzgerald only recently returned from World War I with scars inside and out is back in New Orleans and chasing the killer the newspapers call <em>The Axman</em> a ruthless predator who has plagued the city for years breaking into people's homes in the middle of the night and murdering them in their beds.</p><p> </p><p>The killer even writes a letter to a local newspaper—echoing <em>Jack the Ripper </em>from three decades earlier—and claims to be a "demon from hell."</p><p> </p><p>The top brass at the Police Department says the killer is a madman but Colin suspects there is more to these brutal killings than madness perhaps much more.</p><p> </p><p>Yet even Colin is shocked when he discovers the murders are linked to City Hall and a vast corruption scheme with roots that reach back decades to the assassination of a legendary police chief and to the murder of Colin's own father the former chief of detectives.</p>