On this particular night Commander George Gideon has to deal with a couple of psychopaths, who trail pain and blood in their wake. One targets infants, and the other young women on London s foggy streets. There s also an explosive gang war in the offing, and one way or another all of these cases are coming to their breathtaking conclusions at the same time. Can Scotland Yard s finest deal with such a nightmarish scenario, with what would ordinarily be months of time consuming police work crammed into just one night?