Rocco Klein veteran homicide detective has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that hes never been in any kind of trouble whereas his half-brother Strike runs a crew of street-corner coke dealers clockers in a nearby housing project. Soon Rocco is sure that Strike is the real killer & suddenly Roccos appetite for the job is back. With a vengeance.