Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London; each victim is given a local anaesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is then stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped. But revenge for what? And who will be next? DCI Jairus is put in charge of the case; a resourceful detective, living with guilt after killing a suspect in self-defence. He soon discovers the murders are being committed...