New York, 1702. City of sin and crime. A city where corpses fished out of the Hudson or found in dark alleys surprise or frighten absolutely no one. There is always a reason for murder - a reason that the maniac Tyranus Slaughter does not have. He is kept in the most closed asylum for the insane in the New World. His extradition is demanded by the “mother of the British colonies” - England. But... Matthew Corbett and his partner from the New York detective agency make a mistake - and Slaughter breaks free. Matthew believes that it is his duty to capture the maniac. However, what is he, this terrible man, in whom a sharp mind is combined with obvious madness?..