Dallas usually plays upbeat country music. But now funeral marches have begun to be heard more and more often in the city... First, violinist Julia Kearns, who was suspected of stealing a demo recording of the young but promising singer Miranda Daniels, dies from a sniper’s bullet. Then Les Saint-Clair, who was the first to discover Miranda's talent, disappears without a trace. And finally, the singer's producer John Crea is attacked. Lawyer Milo Chavez asks Detective Jackson "Tres" Navarre to look into the situation. And he immediately finds himself between the hammer of major record companies and the anvil of “pirate” syndicates. He is teetering on the brink of death. But Tres also can’t stay on the sidelines when people are dying around him - it’s not in his rules...