Once among the most powerful slavers in Texas, a man whose infamous and bloody legend made him a feared warlord among mercenaries, a reliable supplier to those in the slave market, and a boogeyman to wastelanders around the former city of Orange, Texas, Luke of Orange is a legend among the people of the Gulf whose stronghold was brought down by the Jewish rifleman of Little Israel in a political strike. Now attempting to rebuild his power in the small settlement of Waveland, Mississippi before his body gives out to lung cancer, Luke of Orange is a power hungry, desperate, sadistic, and genius warlord, a dangerous combination in post-apocalyptic America.