Martin Cosgrove has been away from the newspaper reporter scene for two years, as the manager of a charitable foundation in New York City, when the FBI asks him to consider helping them with a huge serial murder case. He soon realizes that their motivation is not to utilize his investigative skills, but more probably to set him up as a patsy.After Martin's artist girlfriend, Angela, goes off the rails from drug use and participates in an attempt to kidnap him for ransom, he finds a new romantic interest in a woman he can run with, literally, in Central Park. Cyndee is mixed-race, a reporter for the New York Times, and interested in Martin's hobby of writing action novels.Will they survive the diabolical plan of the highly-placed masterminds of the serial murder conspiracy?