McCorkle and Padillo are just trying to run their bar, but a pair of deadly twins turn up trying to persuade Padillo to back them up in a tricky job. Padillo says no, then someone turns up dead in McCorkle's home and suddenly they're involved in the protection of a soon-to-be-king of a soon-to-be-oil-rich state targeted by a pair of very professional assassins, who are not twins. Things get bloody and occasionally brutal, but never not dry and laconic and rest assured there is many a twist before the end.