His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that takes a little,explaining, but he’s used to it. ‘Daddy was a communist and great-great-granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the black man’s family tree is mostly root. Whatever you see above ground is only a hint at the real story.’
Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades in cash and favours, McGill’s an old-school PI working a city that’s gotten fancy all around him. Fancy or not, he has always managed to get by mostly because he’s never been above taking a shady job for a quick Buck. But like the city itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, ‘decided to go from crooked to slightly bent’.