On the eve of the release of his new book about inner city crime, a young Birmingham writer starts receiving death threats. A friend asks Derrick Olin to step in and protect him and almost immediately the bullets start flying, people start dying, and the tough former Air Force operative finds himself in the middle of a deadly situation. Surrounded by desperate and dangerous people, Derrick soon realizes that they all seem to have only one thing in common: they all want his new client dead!