Twenty-something, John Abernathy is disillusioned. His job as a private investigator is unfulfilling, and he can’t find work in his chosen field, Enigmatology, the study and design of puzzles. He is about to quit when the National Enquirer calls. A woman in Las Vegas, New Mexico sent them a photo of someone who’s supposed to have died 35 years ago—Elvis Aaron Presley. And they need John to investigate it. When the Elvis impersonator, Al Leadbelly, is murdered, John investigates, finding Air Force colonel, Alvin Hollister—convinced Leadbelly has information regarding Elvis' death—at the crime scene conducting his own investigation. John discovers great-great-great grandfather's journal—unearthing a conspiracy entwining Elvis, shape-shifting aliens, and Mary Todd Lincoln. Now John must solve Leadbelly's murder and discover if he really was really Elvis, an obsessed fan, or something more.

John Abernathy—a former private investigator, a disheartened engimatologist, and a descendent of extraterrestrials from the Sagittarius star system—returns on Las Vegas, New Mexico. His trip is interrupted by the local sheriff asking him to investigate a home invasion perpetrated by an unusual suspect, a giant half-man/half-rabbit. Tracking the culprit to a trailer park, John discovers evidence linking the creature to Colonel Alvin Hollister, the government’s lead scientist studying extraterrestrial activity. Realizing that it’s one of Colonel Hollister’s experiments, John decides to journey to the colonel’s research facility beneath Los Alamos, intent on reverting the rabbit to its human form. Along the way, he encounters a quintet of frat-boy extraterrestrials, a shot-gun wielding cocktail waitress, and Colonel Hollister’s greatest weapon, “Project RR.” When “Project RR” runs amok, it’s up to John to stop it from escaping before it can destroy the town.