Someone is slipping hot-shots--strychnine-laced heroin--to New York's hookers. Sgt. Joe Ryker couldn't care less, but the corpses are starting to litter his beat.When the brass teams him up with a beautiful detective and a cop posing as her pimp, Ryker's just along for the ride--until one of his partners ends up dead. Suddenly the big-fisted cop is crashing through Manhattan's neon hell, rousting every pimp and pusher he can find. He's on a collision course with a killer, and anyone who gets in his way is going to pay the price...