Detective Victoria has never been shy about robbing heroin addicts. He loves  the looks on their faces when he kicks down their doors and finds their highs  gone in an instant. After seventeen years on the force, Victoria has no  delusions about being an honest cop. And that makes him a perfect bagman for  Tommy Doyle. Doyle is the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, the  top dog in a very dirty bunch. To young Bobby Porterfield the old man is a  legend. But as Porterfield is drawn deeper into the dark side of the  department, he finds that justice is never black and white. And when Doyle’s  top men begin to die, Porterfield fears he may be next.