A disbarred lawyer takes credit for a late friend’s book, which becomes a smash hit. But when he finds himself at the top, the circumstances of the real writer’s death and a series of other deaths lead police to accuse him of being a serial killer.
When it becomes too violent at the Double Deuce road house, the club owner hires Dalton, a professional ‘cooler’. Dalton’s attempts to clean things up put him in conflict with Brad Wesley, the town bully and rich person. Things heat up.
Sgt. Tom Hardy denounces his partner, Jimmy Detillo, for brutally interrogating a suspect. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom and begins killing his female associates while Tom is on his hunt to prove his point.