[5] Following an influx of counterfeit money, Secret Service agent John Mavio goes undercover with an Irish gang known as the West Side Boys in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

Mavio's goal is to shut down the ring of organized crime and flush out the source of the counterfeit money, an operation that is perhaps the worst in history.

O'Shay and Kahn have inflicted gruesome deaths on numerous victims by bludgeoning, stabbing, shooting, and cutting into pieces the bodies of those who got in their way or refused to cooperate with their treacherous schemes.

His life undercover is brutal and dangerous, and not only detrimental to his own well-being, but puts at risk the lives of Katie, his pregnant wife, and his dying father.

[6] BookReview.com called it "an interesting police procedural"[7] while one Booklist reviewer stated, "This is a gripping thriller, similar to the novels of Gerald Petievich, the Secret Service agent turned author (To Live and Die in L.A. is his most well-known title), but with more emotional and moral depth.