Michael Savella, a burned-out war correspondent, goes to ground writing obituaries at a small newspaper in Atlantic City and is struggling to hold his job when he's involved in a minor accident that leaves a woman named Mary Bloom dead. Intrigued by the empty church at her funeral, Savella tries to find someone who knew her - a search quickly fueled by the discovery in her bedroom of a photograph of Jack Ruby and a tattered address book with forty...