After thirteen years a violent serial killer known as The Plastic Surgeon has returned to stalk the streets of Sydney, killing blonde women and hacking apart their faces in a psychotic frenzy.

Frank Saunders was the detective in charge of the first Plastic Surgeon taskforce. His failure to catch this insane predator resulted in the breakdown of both his marriage and his health. Now, thirteen years later. Frank is a bitter, chain-smoking old cop desperate to finish the job. He given one more chance and partnered with Joanne Mullins, a pretty young officer eager to prove himself.

But the Plastic Surgeon is fit and elusive, moving quickly through the city's darkened streets and alleys like a ghost. In fact in a taunting letter to the police he provides them with a new name and the first clue to his true identity - Ghostryder.

Can Frank and Joanne use this titbit of information to track down and catch this dangerous psychopath?