The nephew of Harpo Delahoussey, Scruggs is a violent and vindictive man who is out to kill Cool Breeze Broussard. Scruggs is a part-time contract killer for the Giacono crime family. Scruggs is a very tall man who often sports "a smoke-colored Stetson" cowboy hat (pg. 155.) Harpo Scruggs chews Red Man tobacco. He wears "yellow-tinted glasses" and has a grizzled face. Scruggs is believed to have been a confidential federal informant at the time of Jack Flynn's murder. Scruggs is also one of the men who murdered Flynn, along with Archer Terrebonne and at least two other men.