New York City. 1980. Seventeen-year old private school student Raymond McMurtry is found dead in the boy's room of the Kurt Schmitt Academy for Advanced Boys. A few days later, his mother, Helen, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Is there a connection? When Lee discovers the truth, he risks his own arrest to dish out some, what straight-arrow Lt. Sam Houston of NYPD calls "frontier justice."