A series of savage, punishment-fits-the-crime assaults carried out by a self-styled avenger seems to implicate Cameron Colley, a journalist at an Edinburgh newspaper. Detained by the police as a suspect, Cameron protests that he`s being set up, though he can`t hide a certain admiration for the avenger`s violent justice. Cameron knows that the only way to prove his innocence is to lead the police to the vigilante himself--a good plan until it becomes clear to him that the culprit is uncomfortably close to home.