Hank Janson's latest Chicago Chronicle assignment sees him visiting a small town in the deep South, where he meets the beautiful green-eyed blonde Virginia Leighton ... and falls foul of an angry mob of locals inflamed by vile racial hatred. On his return to Chicago, this horrifying incident leads him to reconnect with an old friend, stunning nightclub owner Cora Reid, who has a puzzling aversion to physical intimacy. Soon he finds himself...