At a crossroads in life and desperate to find work, Newark Phelps takes stock of his assets and realizes that one of them is a license to carry a handgun. He finds his new life as a rookie private investigator as little excitement as he needs until he gets seduced by The Huntress and nearly takes a bullet in the head for his trouble. Is The Huntress living up to her name and engaging in a sick black widow sport? Or is Newark's own boss trying to get him killed? Newark hits the seedier side of Boston streets to find out who's targeting him and discovers he might also be getting set up to take the fall for the murder of a notorious thug.