When detective Sergeant Andrew Sutton found himself without a clue in the murder of Ben Chusinsky, he decided to take justice by the hand but instead found himself the object of a search by his department and a drug money laundering network with tentacles reaching South America. His dalliance with a medical examiner almost ruined a career that was saved by the conspiracy of his partner and a woman who loved him.
Only coincidence and luck brought resolution to a case that had produced a floating body lacking in forensics, a crime scene that had been quickly sold out from under the investigation, and the death of a greedy murderer whose demise was greeted with cheers by the anguished soul of the victim.