Frank and Joe Hardy have landed themselves a couple of summer jobs on a construction site in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City - and they're certainly feeling the heat. The site is plagued with mishaps that don't seem very accidental. And after a couple of terrifyingly close shaves, the brothers are determined to discover just how shaky the foundations for this job really are. As they chip away at the surface, they soon reach the underlying rot. From the mob to the unions, it seems like every blueprint is steeped in corruption. Frank and Joe need to find out just who's at the centre of this forty-story disaster-zone fast, orthey only things they'll be digging are their own graves.