A bloody power struggle was boiling up inside the Mafia, with the Boston and Montreal mobs fighting over the state of Maine, the last open territory in the Northeast. The Godfather heard both sides and decided Boston had first crack at the big takeover. But they had to make it fast or lose the whole bundle.
The boys picked out a town, Chapmans Corners, not much of a town but to get it they were ready to use anything—bribery, blackmail, sex, murder. They came with money and guns, the ruthless force of Cosa Nostra behind them, and only one man even thought about stopping them.
Greeley, the cynical, hard-drinking crooked cop, had done some dirty things in his life, but there were limits ... and Greeley had just reached his.