A one-time scrub for the Brooklyn Dodgers is shot to death in the Citi Field press box during a visit to New York City. Soon afterward, a couple of similar shootings of a restaurant cook on a subway platform and an accountant on the West Side Highway suggest more than just unconnected big city violence. Drawn to the case by family promises, private investigator Paul Finley seeks a pattern to the shootings even as they increasingly endanger him and those closest to him.