Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and
sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his
operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.
Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are
the city's bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny
Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt's help, Cordell
finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It's
just like the old days - only