When someone turns up dead in New York City, the police are called in to investigate. When the police fail to turn up any leads, they call the Gravediggers. What makes these guys so special? The Gravediggers is what the men and women of the NYPD call the special unit that turns unsolved murders into arrests that stick.
The INS is deporting Cohen's star witness and the French Embassy has filed an harassment complaint against the Gravediggers. Witnesses' stories don't mesh. A photograph and a sheaf of twenty-year-old papers from the hand of a dead man may provide answers...but only if Cohen and Colozzo can get hold of them in time! The lines between public lives and private passions blurs: Cohen's zeal for his work may be destroying his relationship with Connie, and his private demons may keep him from seeing clues that are right before him. Can Cohen clear his head -- long enough to save a young woman's life?