Stamford is approached by an old underworld figure now going straight, Y.C. Kung, to find the murderers of his daughter and only grandson. But when his close friend, Internet operative Konrad Woolff, is killed during one of their investigations, Y.C.'s case must take second place. However, finding himself also on someone's hit list, it is not long before Stamford suspects a link between all three murders and finds himself caught up in the scramble for economic power in the New Chinese Hong Kong of post-1997.