A trail of suspicion and terror tolls in the wake of the brutal murder of undercover Baltimore Police Detective Frank Dixon. John Larkin, the victims friend and fellow Special Investigations Section officer, gets involved in an investigation that leads him to a hell hole of crime and debauchery known as Pigtown, dominated by its kingpin, Ernest Broadway, and his army of assassins. What Larkin discovers in his investigation places his own life in jeopardy and entangles him in the underbelly of a vast deception in the rank of those who both control the law and the lawless. Larkin can only extricate himself from this dangerous bondage by putting his badge and duty to uphold the law aside.