Crime boss Royal Beaumont struggles to maintain control of the small town of Locke City as racial crimes, the Neo-Nazi movment, a rival mafia gang, and the FBI all conspire to ruin Beaumont's carefully structured empire.

When the two-year-old son of a Saudi prince is kidnapped, Burke, the ultimate man-for-hire, is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.

Private eye and ex con Burke is on the trail of a photograph that haunts the dreams of a sexually abused six-year-old boy.