When Parker Harrison--a convicted killer and former client of a unique programme for paroled murderers--asks private investigator Lincoln Perry to find the daughter of a deceased Mafia don, Perry decides to take the request at face value until he discovers that the bones of the woman's husband were discovered at the exact same time Harrison began his quest to locate her.

Private detective Lincoln Perry becomes involved in a personal investigation when his best friend, Ed Gradduk, on the run from police accusing him of arson and murder, dies in a violent confrontation with the Cleveland police.