In a pawnshop alleyway, James Hawker finds a body mutilated beyond
recognition. She was beautiful once, he knows, but life in this hardened
Los Angeles neighborhood took its toll. Starnsdale was once a working
class community, but now it is a battlefield ravaged by warring gangs
who kill without thinking and care nothing for the ordinary citizens
crushed beneath their feet. The toughest gang is called the
Panthers--and Hawker has come to hunt them down.
Enlisted by an Illinois millionaire to stamp out organized crime across
the country, Hawker attacks the Panthers and their rivals, the Santanas,
at the same time. As the two gangs consume each other, and Starnsdale's
gutters overflow with blood, Hawker sees a chance to end the conflict
once and for all, and bring peace to a troubled city.