Seventy-five year old realtor cum detective W.D. Caldwell of Erskine, Minnesota, accepts an invitation to consult on a documentary in Los Angeles. Desperate to get away from a land grabbing pipeline company, he soon finds he's walked into an even bigger boondoggle. Played out through a scenario involving three successful men, whose lives, while criss-crossing, are all impacted by their relationship to the oil industry. It's a riveting account of how they are all destroyed in a strange and unexpected manner. Investigations move slowly. W.D., hired by private detective Chris Handler, tries to unravel the horrific events that include a house fire in Montauk, an assault in Benedict Canyon, and an unexplained airplane crash near Trail witnessed only by a pack of wolves. W.D. with his laid back personality and snoopy nature doesn't miss a thing. He knows evil when he sees it. Now he's headed for the biggest challenge of his life aided by his ability to creepy crawl learned while an informant for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and his gift of gab.