Harry Da Souza is called upon to make a problem disappear after a night out goes awry for the sons of two warring crime families. As boss Richie Stevenson looks to pin blame, patriarch Conrad Harrigan gathers his clan with a plan.

Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.