Things are looking up for former New York Times reporter Jack McMorrow. After a decade-long sabbatical in rural Maine, he`s returning to the newspaper as its northern New England stringer. A trip to the big city turns treacherous, however, when his boyhood friend and former cop Butch Casey is labeled as the prime suspect for the murder of New York City mayor Johnny Fiore. Using Butch`s connections, Jack goes on a city-wide search for the real killer. Along the way, he runs into his ex-girlfriend, and the trouble really begins. Can Jack find the killer without destroying the comfortable life and loving relationship waiting for him back in Maine?