Brighton - Mayday 2008: Drug crime Murder Mayhem Heroin epidemic What if one of the victims happens to be the teenage daughter of a well-connected multi-millionaire? What then ? When the law just isn't enough - like Satan's emissaries, the bounty-hunters spring silently forth Brighton investigator, Macken, beguiled by a grieving mother's stunning beauty, finds himself quickly hurled into the riptide of the woman's teenage daughter's heroin death. Driven by the woman's super-rich husband's primal lust for vengeance, Macken is soon inextricably entangled in the couple's crumbling excuse of a marriage. When a shadowy government-sponsored madman surfaces, Macken feels he has no way out - save calling again upon the murderous skills of his long-faded youth. "The thing that scares, and excites, people the most is proximity. Proximity to God Proximity to beauty Proximity to carnal pleasure Proximity to happiness Proximity to violence Proximity to evil It all amounts to the same thing. How else would Hollywood ever turn a profit ?"