Lieutenant don tomlin is the head of the homicide division of the yonkers police department.he is called upon to investigate what at first appears to be the suicide of a yonkers police sergeant, who is also the head of the city drug task force. it quickly becomes apparent that the sergeant's death is in fact a homicide.. the investigation of his death leads to the uncovering of the sergeant's corrupt dealings with local drug gangs, as well as his involvement with a paramilitary militia in the catskill mountains whom he uses in a scheme to distribute methamphetamine in the city of yonkers. the sergeant's death leads to the unravelling of the plan and to a string of murders in both yonkers and upstate haines falls. the upstate murders are investigated by lieutenant tomlin along with the help of the striking female sheriff of haines falls, joe fioretti. the demise of the drug scheme leads the methamphetamine cookers and militia commander, an ex army sniper, to a race to eliminate each other and anyone who could tie them to the scheme. the resulting murders lead to an epic manhunt in the catskill woods and the sniper's haunted hideout.. shocking events lead to the unforeseen ending and leave the reader to answer the question: is there really ever justice, or merely karma?