Dynastic succession in criminal organizations is rarely uncontested. When Leo Dunleavy, Chief of Buffalo's Homicide Squad, rolls up on a burning house with a mob underboss bleeding in the front yard and money blowing around in the street, he knows a war has erupted to succeed the declining Don. Dunleavy and his squad move against them and he reignites his personal hunt to catch the mysterious killer he has been tracking for three decades.