"Crime is Topic A across America. Even New Orleans, the most gracious American city, has hundreds of homicides each year, and sufficient random violence to keep the city's police force working overtime. So what's one more fatal shooting? When the victim is prominent restaurateur Arthur Hebert, whose distinguished restaurant of the same name attracts both knowledgeable visitors and natives, it's what the cops call a heater case, and the heat is on...

New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon becomes the target of a new national vigilante group calling itself The Jury and executes people it thinks have escaped prosecution. When the new police superintendent is gunned down, Skip and the feds join forces to hang the Jury.