Harry Coal's father is dead. But something else is wrong in the city, and it's more than just corruption and crime darkening the streets. Impossibly executed mob hits. Children vanishing into thin air. It's as if reality itself is coming apart at the seams. Twelve years have passed since Detective Harry Coal has set foot in the bayside city where he was born. He returns to take up his dead father's legacy: to end the menace that is organized crime. Gangsters from rival sides of organized crime are dropping dead. Harry is not the only one following the trail of bodies. An intrepid reporter, a philandering mafia enforcer, and a gritty private eye all snatch at shadows, hoping to find the source of the murders. The evidence points to a single perpetrator, a ghostly assassin dubbed the mafia killer. Who exactly is this supernaturally efficient killer? And should he be stopped at all?