Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it’s not long before he’s made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

When his mistress threatens to expose the secret of their affair, a respected insurance broker seeks the help of his underworld brother to save his reputation.

When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.

Blood flows deep down the old Mississippi drug war. Business deals are conducted through gun-toting strippers who will do anything for money. Sip, a Mississippi born hustler, leaves graveyards filled with remains of those who crossed The Sip Boyz. Things turn sour when they steal from the boss, a Baton Rouge drug lord; the boss sends Black, a heartless hit-man in for retaliation and retribution. Mississippi Shakedown takes you into the shady underground world of drugs, money and women.