Louis Vetters is a recently retired Chicago Police Detective, one of the sharpest and most- respected cops on the force, who now works as a Private Investigator.

He is drawn in to the murder of an aspiring young black artist on Chicago's South Side, who happens to be the grandson of a wealthy, powerful and demanding head of a major law firm in the loop.

With a promise of "no questions asked and money is no object," Louis takes on the case, soon finding himself doing a solo act against the Chicago gangs, though he isn't even sure they're involved. His health, his wife's and family's is soon under threat.

Louis also has reluctantly agreed to investigate the philandering of his neighbor's sizzling hot wife, hesitant because his neighbor is big enough and mad enough to break the guy in two when Louis finds him.