In this reissue, anonymous letter writer, Will of the People, targets criminals and evil-doers the law cannot reach and kills them. His latest target has got one too many killers off a murder rap and so Attorney Whitfield, wanting the most stubborn PI in the Big Apple to watch his back, calls ex-acoholic, ex-cop Matt Scudder.

In this reissue, a young girl is killed, the prime suspect is found dead in his cell and the NYPD consider the case closed. Ex-cop Scudder, hired to look into the case by the girl's father is up to his neck in sleaze, corruption, religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly, children pay for their parents' most unspeakable sins.