Arthor: George Wier
Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached expense counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may possibly not reside the most exciting of lives, nevertheless Julie Simmons, his very first appointment that Monday, is deeply in problems. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin–the very last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920′s–for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million dollars. And thus begins the journey of Bill’s daily life.
Ensues a chase north across Texas to recuperate the dollars and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Nevertheless, through all this motion the persuasive tale of nevertheless yet another mystery—an eighty-calendar year old missing person’s case—begins to unravel.