Little Happy Clouds

"These old bones 'aint cooperating," groans a still very sleepy and very hungover Gumbo as he trudges into the office. Gumbo's secretary rolls her eyes.

He's only 14 years old, but those are dog years. And he's spent the past five of them running down no-good lowlifes, crooks and bail jumpers, the life of Orleans Parish's finest bounty hunter. And father time has come calling on Gumbo's pure bred hound dog bones.

Gumbo has made a name, and some fame, for himself working eight days a year on the sidelines for the New Orleans Saints football team. But after the games are over, its back to making a living digging dirt out of the unforgiving Louisiana swamps. Bail jumpers don't keep a schedule, and bounties are hard to collect.

Today's target is a guy arrested for attempting to purchase a high powered cannon. A one, Matthew "Noodle" Ryan out of Atlanta, who apparently came to New Orleans to find that firepower he was otherwise lacking. Just another bounty to Gumbo.

Is he gonna get him? You bet your ass he is. Gumbo may be old, but he's still the best gatdamn bounty hunter this side of Baton Rouge.