In the fourth book set in O`Connell`s fictional New England industrial city of Quinsigamond, a cab driver becomes the focus of an extremely bloody three-sided turf war between a brutal book-obsessed gangster, a group of renegade cops, and a former police chief with some very strange linguistic theories, all of whom are seeking a package that may or may not be related to a murder-suicide involving an insane tycoon years earlier.