Jack Stenhouse, a player and a leading Fort Lauderdale homicide detective, scours the steamy South Florida streets to determine why beautiful women are dying from the bite of a black mamba, a snake found only in Africa, known as the Shadow of Death. While looking for the killer, Jack realizes that he’s tired of his boss and the incessant Florida heat, and he decides to move to the action of the Big Apple with his stripper girlfriend, Deidra Lee, also known as Didi, a woman with a nickname to match her attributes. Immediately after joining New York’s First Precinct, Jack is thrust into the action he craves. His first case involves a serial killer who is committing murder to protect the one he loves. Will Jack survive the cold and the concrete streets? To find out, you must enter the mysterious world of Jack Stenhouse.