The Shadowman carries the responsibility and duty of protecting the living world from the dark parallel world of the Deadside. Jack Boniface has carried that burden, but now he is gone, murdered by the demented Tommy Lee Bones and his Dead Men who have slipped through from the Deadside to New Orleans. To stop them someone else must take up the mantle of Shadowman and send them back. Nettie, a voodoo priestess, and her Deadside spy Jaunty believe that person may be Zero, a contract killer with a mysterious past.
Looking for clues to finding his kidnapped lover, Shadowman is drawn into the Deadside vortex that is the Vietnam memorial. If you thought that jungle conflict was ugly, wait until you see the Deadside version. And if that weren't enough, some powerful people in the Alignment are trying to tap into the very heart of Deadside, causing Shadowman...problems. And who is the man called Blacktower?