In the Ramapo Mountains of New York, the nude and mutilated body of a white John Doe is discovered in a car with diplomatic plates. When quick-tempered NYPD Detective Francis X. Byrne finds a photograph of his own mother on the victim, he is soon enmeshed in an investigation that takes him into the seedy underworld of urban darkness to uncover a deadly global conspiracy of double agents and false identities. Simultaneous hardcover release from Warner Books. 2 cassettes.