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In March 1977, ballistics link murders heading back half a year to the same Charter Biceps and triceps Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war - only rewrite what they get. Constantly searching for subjects who need their stories informed, he uncovers other killings being dismissed because of the media circus. He runs after one, the storyplot of a Black woman gunned down in her apartment building the same nighttime Son of Sam struck in other places in Queens. The storyline entangles Taylor with a wealthy Area Avenue family at war with itself. As he's closing in on the killer and his scoop, the July 13-14 blackout directs New York into a 24-hour orgy of looting and damage. Taylor and his PI partner Samantha Callahan head out in to the darkness, where a steamy night of mob violence awaits them. In the midst of the chaos, a think in Taylor's report goes missing. Eager, he races to a confrontation that will either break the storyplot - or Taylor.