Small-time East Coast criminal Vince Camden was relocated to Spokane under the Witness protection program after serving up a couple of his old buddies to the Feds In his seedy suburban tract house Vince wakes up every morning at 159AM before his alarm goes off, and starts counting all the dead people he knows On this particular day, Vince feels more paranoid than ever that someone's out to get him The people he encounters on his daily routine are jittery and out of sorts But the real games begin when his walk home takes him across the path of detective Dupree at the scene of a grisly shooting