A villainous union leader is willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to protect his corrupt longshoremen's union. When a whistleblower tries to clean up the system, the leader sees his way of life threatened by this bold newcomer. He orders an open hit contract to kill the man, which is carried out by three of his underlings. Soon the law picks up on the trail, and Marlene Ciampi and Butch Karp team up to expose the man for the fraud and murderer...

New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder.

When a tremendous blast rocks an old school building in East Harlem during a meeting of the New York Charter Schools, killing six and wounding a dozen others, it's initially blamed on a natural gas explosion. However, as Butch Karp digs a little deeper, he discovers the explosion was the work of a mysterious serial arsonist in the employ of the teacher's union president, who is angry at the unqualified successes of the charter school movement in New...

Butch Karp is asked to defend the city of New York in a lawsuit filed by four men sent to prison years ago for the rape of a young girl. Complicating matters, a deadly terrorist cell kidnaps a member of the Karp's family, and the future looks bleak.

When a convicted murderer escapes from prison and sets out to kill those responsible for his incarceration, Butch Karp discovers that the convict holds him personally responsible and is targeting Karp's daughter as part of his plot.