Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston was a model cop -- until a maniac broke into his home and brutally murdered him, his wife and his children, but somehow missed his five-year old son who was hiding in a closet. Now the top brass is suggesting that Gentle Ben was dirty. But Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont isn't about to let anybody drag his dead friend's reputation through the mud. And he's ready to trail a killer from the gang-ruled streets to the upper ranks of the Seattle P.D., if necessary, to save a scared little boy who knows too much to live.