13 bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time. The veracity and apparent randomness of the crime prompt the police to call in crimeology Professor Daniel Milllikan - they want a profile of the murderer. Millikan determines that the crime was committed not by a psychopath but by a professional killer of consummate skill and total lack of feeling. I think the one who did it is one of the special cases. He's somebody we can't afford to have walking around a street where our families walk. When millikan learns that the investigation has come to a complete standstill, he commits himself to Unorthodox decision. The only hope of stopping the Killer and end in the Bloodshed is to employee Roy prescott, an expert in the neighborhood specialty of hunting down murderers through methods the police can't and wouldn't use.