When Al is seconded by The Cardinal from guard duties at Party Central to investigate the murder of a woman at a hotel he little suspects that the dead woman is his girlfriend or that the prime suspect is the near mythical assassin Pacaur Wami. Soon he is involved in a terrifying mystery that draws in the dead, the city's Incan forefathers, the imposing figure of the Cardinal and the assassin, Wami, who can kill anyone he chooses . . .