Brenda Paulie is fresh out of law school, newly married, and recently pregnant. Shes also marked to die. In an affluent neighborhood of Detroit, three masked men burst into Brendas house, beat her husband senseless, and take her captivetheir thirteenth victim this year. Only one man can save her: James Hawker, Americas deadliest vigilante. And when he comes to Detroit, the city will never be the same.
Hawkers one-man crusade against organized crime has taken him into the beating heart of the nations pornography industry: the crumbling smogscrapers of downtown Detroit. Smut is one thing, but kidnapping is another. To save Brenda and all the other victims of vice, Hawker must infiltrate an empire of filth.