"PhD candidate Barkley Michaelson is a man with a big problem. Living in the shadow of his philandering, arrogant father Eli, he's never been good enough for the old man-- and that was before Eli won the Nobel Prize. So when Barkley's kidnapped on the eve of the Nobel ceremony and held for the $2 million in prize money, it's no surprise that Eli refuses to pay. Realizing that his fate rests in his own hands, Barkley decides to use his smarts and finally...

Sgt. Terence McDonagh of the New Orleans PD has been promoted to lieutenant, thanks to an act of bravery just after Hurricane Katrina. He jumped into the murky, rising waters of a flooded jail to save a prisoner, injured his back in the process, and now he's addicted to painkillers. That's OK, though, because McDonagh is also addicted to every drug on the planet, and helps himself by raiding the evidence room after drug busts. The slaughter of a Senegalese...