Late one night, Gabe Herschon, a gay Jew, was walking home from his job at King Cole's where he worked as the night manager when he was viciously attacked by four men and left for dead in an alley. The local beat cop found him lying unconscious and nearly dead.

When Matt Murphy, an ex-cop and now P.I., found out about the attack, it filled him with a terrible anger. Gabe was a long-time friend. He knew the police could only allocate a certain amount of time to the matter, so he decided to take steps of his own to find and bring these men to justice.

In the course of his investigation he soon learned the true nature of bigotry and hate at a deadly cost.