When a madman murders his wife and unborn baby, Danny Logan-known on the streets as a psychopathic cop with a license to kill-sets out to murder the killer-in cold blood.

But when Logan tracks down the killer, the reader soon realizes that this is only the beginning of the story; the beginning of a long, chaotic journey, of self-discovery.

A lost, vicious, down-and-out cop, who had set out to find a killer-in the beginning-finds himself-in the end.