Deep was back in town after a twenty-five year exile -- to inherit an empire and avenge a death. He and Bennett had made the inheritance pact when they were kids -- blood brothers in crime. They had known then that even New York was too small for them both to share, and so they had tossed a coin to determine who would stay and who would build his organization in another town. Deep had lost and gone. But now Bennett has lost -- been murdered in his own home -- and Deep is ready to prove he is strong enough to take over. Deep wants Bennett's killer; the others want Bennett's job. And all too many of them -- including the beautiful Irish -- want Deep dead.