Can Judge Al Roth ever shake his street gang past? Roth has everything going for him-great job, loyal friends, and a beautiful woman who loves him. But when a congressman threatens to expose a murder Roth helped commit when he was stationed in Cold War Germany, Roth stands to lose everything. Too bad the congressman doesn't know about Jake Gertner-Roth's boyhood friend from Detroit, a hitman who'll do anything for him. But Jake has his own problems. Unless Roth can find some way of putting a criminal defendant on trial for murder back on the streets so Jake can clip him, Jake will get whacked...