Frank Pierce had spent his life fighting for the good in the world, only to repeatedly find that virtue is victimized. After being brought to near insanity by an unsolved case involving a serial killer of children, Frank resigned as a homicide detective and accepted a teaching position. There, Pierce continued to see only a world of cruelty and hate. Maddened by the same criminal minds in school that he had fought against for so long on the street, Frank Pierce would destroy all he had once sought to be good by unleashing his hidden rage on a cocky student. Alone in a world that now hates him, Frank is approached by the mysterious figure of Gabriel Moran, who offers him an incredible, though almost unbelievable, opportunity. In a dark moment, Frank finds himself incarcerated in a dangerous, secretive prison known as Flintas Ridge. He is not the average inmate; however, he is a hired executioner the likes of which had previously only been the silent fantasy of victims. Justice becomes his to enact as criminals are brutalized beyond the reaches of normal humanity. But what is to become of Pierce as he charges headlong into the madness of murdering those who prey on innocence? What becomes of the man who deals virtue through cruelty? In a morbid, psychological vision, how can a hero and a villain be merged into a sum of one?