Tony Banks is released from prison only to find that someone is killing those who are closest to him. This lightning fast tale takes the reader from the violence of a cell to the deadly shadows of Manhattan. The apartment buidking Tony has inherited from his Grandfather becomes both a project to help him put his life back together and a home to be defended from the mob and a determined killer. As tony tries to outsmart the two mob hit men to to get him and uncover a murder in time to save the woman he is falling in love with, the city becomes a deadly battle ground and Tony's apartment building becomes a vulnerable fortress for a stormy climax in which someone will not survive.
