Mack Malloy ex-cop not-quite-ex-drunk and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward Mack is on the trail of a colleague his firm's star litigator who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. Soon Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city on his final desperate and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul . . .