SYNOPSIS The Seaside Bar and Grill The story begins in the backroom of the Seaside Bar and Grill. Samuel Cocker, known around these parts as "Skinny" is a black one-legged Viet Nam war hero and narrates the story as they play a game of Texas Holdem. Most of the people at the poker game have one thing in common; over a span of four decades, each has saved Skinny's life. He refers to them as members of his second family. The first member of Skinny's extended family is"Peter Hamilton" also known as "Crazy Pete." Pete built the Seaside Bar and Grill along with "Pete's Surf Shack" and "The Oceanside Motel" near the fictional desert town of El Paco Arizona back around 1979. Jimmy Jacks aka Johnny Brassi aka Johnny two guns is an ex-gangster out of New York City. The rest of the members of Skinny's second family are William "Buster" Madison an ex-big time ad agent who works for Jimmy writing ads at KRAB radio, and Fat Betty the manager of the Seaside Bar and Grill. William Madison known to everyone in El Paco as Buster showed up around the year 2000. Buster has the habit of comparing events that have happened in his life to something he's seen in a movie, on TV or read in a book. A seemly harmless guy until he shows Jimmy that's not necessarily the correct presumption when they get into a scrape on a working trip to Phoenix. He was instrumental in saving Skinny's life after a fire breaks out at Pete's Surf Shack. Fat Betty is the manager of the Seaside. She has a history with Skinny, worked for him in LA and ended up in El Paco after Skinny's wife Loretta becomes ill. She is a very pleasant person unless you get on her wrong side. AN FBI Agent shows up with the intent of blackmailing Jimmy Jackson. This forces Jimmy to tell his friends the complete story of his past, including an armored car heist. They go to Pete for help, secrets are revealed. It's not an accident that most of the main characters end up in El Paco. When a fire breaks out at the Surf Shack, the event was filmed by a TV station out of Phoenix which catches Jimmy Jackson on camera. Because of its unusual circumstance, the fire was shown on national TV. Jimmy's location is revealed, and the gangsters descend upon El Paco.