New York Late 1958 Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA setting honeytraps & reeling in the victims of his plots But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier safer life as a Private Investigator Manhattan in the late Fifties is alive with new possibilities new sounds & new faces including young presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally Withers is assigned to bodyguard Keneally's girlfriend at a society gathering a simple enough job But next morning she's dead
- & Withers is the prime suspect To clear his name Withers must take on his old masters from the CIA as well as J Edgar Hoover's FBI all of them determined to set Keneally up & Withers expert hunter becomes another disposable victim of the trap closing in on the Senator