When a fellow sculler is beaten to death on the streets of Boston, junior reporter Chris Parsons spearheads and investigation that leads him and his girlfriend Leslie into the world of fine art smuggling. From the streets of Southie where they assist a homeless shelter terrorized by a gang of bigots, to a dawn re-enactment of the shot heard 'round the world, to Fenway Park where an ultra-superstitious ballplayer is stoking the perennial files by infusing speed into the Red Sox lineup for the first time in fifty years, they find themselves pursued by a ruthless enforcer...one who loves to kill with his hands.