An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled "Will of the People" targets prominent criminals and evil-doers that the law cannot reach - and kills them. All of them are dubbed by the Will "society offenders who might as well be in the ground" - he sends his hit-list to a tabloid newspaper columnist. His latest target is a Criminal Defence Attorney who's got one too many killers off a murder charge. Given the failure of New York's finest to protect his predecessors, DA Adrian Whitfield wants the most stubborn PI in the Big Apple watching his back.