Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed,
and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with
one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a
.45.
Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only
companions are the city's bartenders. But trouble still knows how to
find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood,
begging for Matt's help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of
beautiful women and bloody murder. It's just like the old days - only
this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving
end...