What does it take to change a man's life? What does it take when that man has seen fame and adoration taken away suddenly and replaced by a long, slow decline into mediocrity? Jimmy Van Horn was an All Star for the Los Angeles Dodgers before an injury to his knee ended his career. Now, six years later and thousands of beers down the road, Jimmy has hit bottom in his own bar. He makes a stupidly clumsy pass at an employee and she drives him home only because he is too drunk to drive himself. What he finds in his home shatters his complacency and starts him on a long road back to self-respect....

Jimmy Van Horn gets a visitor in his Austin, Texas, bar late one night. A woman named Vanessa Burnett who is scared to death wants him to protect her from Marcus Patton, against whom she intends to file a complaint for the murder of an accountant named Wendell Phillips.

He tells her he has to talk to his partner and asks her to come back the next night. However, before that date happens, he sees an account on television of her murder. Throw his daughters and a new girlfriend into the mix and Jimmy has to step carefully.

What follows pushes Jimmy and his partner, an ex-cop named...

Jerry Harmon walks into Jimmy Van Horn's office in Austin, Texas, one steamy Friday night and asks him to find his father, an entomologist named Samuel. The young man gives Jimmy five hundred dollars and asks, "Is that enough?"

So starts "Fundamentally Texas." As Jimmy's partner, Marta Howarth, struggles with her own demons, they begin to uncover a plot that will threaten both their lives as they look for Samuel Harmon. Discovering where the man went is half the problem. Why he left even after his wife died becomes the issue. That issue will swamp them with religious fervor and maniacal...

What does it take to change a man's life? What does it take when that man has seen fame and adoration taken away suddenly and replaced by a long, slow decline into mediocrity? Jimmy Van Horn was an All Star for the Los Angeles Dodgers before an injury to his knee ended his career. Now, six years later and thousands of beers down the road, Jimmy has hit bottom in his own bar. He makes a stupidly clumsy pass at an employee and she drives him home only because he is too drunk to drive himself. What he finds in his home shatters his complacency and starts him on a long road back to self-respect....

Jimmy Van Horn gets a visitor in his Austin, Texas, bar late one night. A woman named Vanessa Burnett who is scared to death wants him to protect her from Marcus Patton, against whom she intends to file a complaint for the murder of an accountant named Wendell Phillips.

He tells her he has to talk to his partner and asks her to come back the next night. However, before that date happens, he sees an account on television of her murder. Throw his daughters and a new girlfriend into the mix and Jimmy has to step carefully.

What follows pushes Jimmy and his partner, an ex-cop named...

Jerry Harmon walks into Jimmy Van Horn's office in Austin, Texas, one steamy Friday night and asks him to find his father, an entomologist named Samuel. The young man gives Jimmy five hundred dollars and asks, "Is that enough?"

So starts "Fundamentally Texas." As Jimmy's partner, Marta Howarth, struggles with her own demons, they begin to uncover a plot that will threaten both their lives as they look for Samuel Harmon. Discovering where the man went is half the problem. Why he left even after his wife died becomes the issue. That issue will swamp them with religious fervor and maniacal...