When recovering drug addict Lyle Pickering is found dead of an overdose, it looks like a tragic accident. But his sister Rochelle knows better, and so does Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Lyle was murdered, and the evidence points to his old street gang. As Eve and husband Roarke track the killer through the city's dive bars, drug dens and strip joints, another body is found. With connections growing between the living and the dead, Eve realises this could be the start of a brutal turf war between rival gangs. She needs close this case fast, before the violence bleeds out into New York's streets.