Finding himself imprisoned in a loveless marriage and infuriated by his father's betrayal of his beloved mother, a handsome successful attorney, John Ireland, Jr, leaves his wife and quits his father's law firm to pursue the gorgeous young Christiania Tetchenova.
In the midst of their steamy affair, John frightfully discovers that Christiania is the mistress of Nicholas Sarkin, a wealthy Atlanta land developer who happens to be an old friend of the head of the Russian Mafia in America, Stefan Krylenko.
When Sarkin's body is found in a bloody heap on the floor of his bedroom stabbed twenty-seven times, John Ireland, Jr. finds himself running from the police in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence.