Marshal Thomas Jefferson makes all the rules - and breaks them. Teamed with his dedicated cyborg partner - an unfuriatingly logical masterpiece of engineering - Cade and Janek investigate the bixarre disappearance of Darksiders in New York. When a female reporter - Cade's sometime companion - also disappears, the case becomes highly personal.

The marshal team follows the trail of a ruthless industrialist to an asteroid mining colony, where Cade has to make an agonizing choice between love and justice.