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Fred Mathieson was not an ordinary witness against the mob. He was never in the organization, and didn't testify against gangster Frank Pastor to save his own skin. Mathieson is a lawyer, and took the stand simply from a desire to do the right thing. His conscience destroyed his life, but he built a new one. Now his long-ago testimony is about to put him and his family in mortal danger. For nearly nine years, Mathieson has been safe in the Witness Security Program, working as an entertainment attorney in California. But Frank Pastor is a few days away from parole, and he has decided to take revenge.

New York, anni Settanta. Paul Benjamin è un professionista di successo, dalla vita quasi perfetta e dal temperamento mite e pacifico. Quando la sua abitazione viene assalita da una banda di teppisti, lui sta consumando un tranquillo pranzo di lavoro e mai potrebbe immaginare che una telefonata stia per stravolgere la sua esistenza: per un bottino di pochi dollari, dei criminali hanno brutalmente aggredito la sua unica figlia Carol e ucciso la moglie Esther.

Paul Benjamin was an ordinary New Yorker until a gang of drug addicts killed his wife and raped his daughter. When the police proved helpless, Benjamin bought a gun and found his own vengeance, methodically tracking the addicts and killing them one by one. Now he is in Chicago, and the cycle of violence is about to begin anew. On his first night in the city, he stumbles out of a bar in a bad part of town, pretending to be drunk. When two thugs set upon him, they find their quarry sober and armed. He kills them both, escaping before the police arrive.