Sarge attempts to prevent a murder when Henry, one of his parishioners, upon learning he has only months to live, decides to exact revenge upon a mobster.
A series of attempts on the life of Sarge has Chief of Detectives Barney Verick working around the clock in a a desperate attempt to capture an elusive would-be killer.
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife--and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead.
Sarge is only peripherally involved in a strange story of a maniac murderer who steals his victims' left shoes, and Lt. Edmonds, the overworked cop who has had one case too many.