Detective Pete Lindstrom's made a shocking discovery - that the notorious longneck slasher is the son of Anthony Lacroix, the city's wealthiest businessman. In any other place, Pete's investigative work would earn him a promotion - but in a city run by Lacroix's paid-off police, it earns only a death sentence. In short order, Lindstrom is framed for a pair of grisly murders and arrested. but Pete's odds on making it to court alive are slim, since the arresting officer is also the man responsible for setting him up. Pete has one chance to escape to freedom. One chance to return to the mountains, to hide, to buy the time he needs to sort out the nightmare his life has become. Pete takes the chance - and begins an adventure that will take him from the mountains of the pacific northwest to the steel canyons of New York City.