While searching for a missing infant, private eye Burke stumbles upon a monstrous child who has been turned into a baby killer, a discovery that leads him into a horrifying world of witchcraft, voodoo, cruelty, and Satanism in the dark underworld of New York.
When a client who had hired him to find a missing woman is gunned down just minutes after their meeting, Burke launches an investigation to find Beryl Preston, a girl he had rescued from a brutal pimp some twenty years earlier and returned ...