For Jack Gold, a police officer from Los Angeles, music ceased to exist the day his lover, a jazz singer, committed suicide. But not only music left Jack Gold's life. He lost love, lost his career. But loneliness did not break him; Jack Gold is on the trail of a maniacal killer who imagined himself as the “great savior” of America. To cleanse the country of all people of color and Jews is the “high mission” that the Killer with the Cross took upon himself.