The authorities blame Hawk Moseley for a bunch of so-called “hangings” - murders unsolved by other detectives, the investigation of which distracts Hawk from his latest case - the death of a young guy who died of a drug overdose. This version suits everyone except Moseley - since it turns out that the murdered man owed local mafiosi $25,000, which disappeared without a trace, and, moreover, was by no means impeccable from a moral point of view - the deceased, for example, cohabited with his own stepmother...