Homicide detective Scobie Malone returns to tackle one of his toughest cases yet: in the gay community of Sydney, where ‘gay bashings’ are a daily occurrence, someone has taken the law into their own hands and is eliminating the culprits. To make matters more confusing, each shooting appears to have been done by a different person.
Whoever it is, as they clock up murder after murder Malone realises that he is dealing with an intelligent, highly dangerous killer who is as elusive as he is deadly. At the same time, this difficult case is causing tension within the force as prejudices of all kinds - race, creed, colour and sexual inclination - rear their ugly heads.
It’s bad enough that the killer seems to be one step ahead, constantly protected by the bay network who are refusing to co-operate, but when Malone’s own precious daughter has a near escape, his determination to crack the case and the killer’s identity intensifies, while he tries to remain professional.
