A reporter for the Baltimore Herald, Darryl Billups is a hardworking black journalist who's been passed up and looked down upon because he won't kiss butt and always speaks his mind. He's also one of the best damn newspapermen on the East Coast. And soon the whole city will know it.At first, Darryl ignores the voice mail message warning him about an impending wave of white supremacist violence. But when bombs start to go off all over town -- and a noted liberal philanthropist is slain -- Billups quickly becomes a believer. The devil has come to Baltimore spouting neo-Nazi garbage, and he's daring a lone black reporter to hunt him down. And as the stakes get higher, deadlier, and more personal, Darryl is off and running -- determined to chase a deadly urban nightmare to its rotting, poisonous core, challenging a scourge that is about to rock Darryl's world in ways he never imagined possible.