R.M. Hoopes

Detective Gary discovers that his wife is having an affair. Despondent, he drinks and discusses his problem with friend Dan, a police detective. When someone in a copper mask begins slaughtering people connected to Gary's life, Dan begins suspecting Gary, whose cousin Mike had a similar slip of the gears. Dan discusses the case with eminent psychiatrist Dr. Siedow, who has a few sexually slipped gears of his own. Together they try to stop the fiend before more people are killed.

After being released from prison, Danny returns to his old neighborhood in order to start his life anew. Unfortunately, an act of aggression against his mother soon leads him on a quest to avenge her, a quest that leads him right back into the seedy underbelly of society that he had hoped to escape.