Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with...

Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building.

NYPD Detective Michael Bennett will stop at nothing to protect family: his wife, his kid-and his fellow officers. At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim. But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops. 'I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,' NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. 'Report only to me.' Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he's chasing a killer who feeds on isolation...and paranoia....