New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the
boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it
seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep
some kind of peace - their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in
evidence - Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two
completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and
riots that threatens to tear Harlem apart.