Newly reinstated Sheriff's Deputy Lucky Dey is back in a patrol car as rookie Shia St. George's training officer. The simple rupture of a water main and Lucky's obsession with a deplorable ghettocide set them on a collision course with a ruthless O.G. (Original Gangster) and entrepreneur whose influence ripples from the storm drains of the inner city to the top tiers of Los Angeles city government.
It's the Fourth of July holiday and Los Angeles is smothered in record heat. Saddled by their obnoxious ride-along, a blockbuster Hollywood movie director, Lucky and Shia's search for a murderer unravels a citywide conspiracy of crime and corruption.
But the past is sneaking up on Lucky. He doesn't know that Shia holds a secret that could destroy the tenuous new life he is trying to build. Furthermore, the revelation of the Reaper tattoo he keeps under wraps arouses a hunger for violence and vengeance on streets where the question of cop lives versus black lives is secondary to primal greed and ambition.
Driven to deliver justice where injustice is a way of life, morally complex Lucky Dey handles business the only way he knows how. His way.