Ex-mercenary Hank Mitchell is doing five years hard time for stealing a tubful of women's underwear. In prison Mitch falls like a bear for his young cellmate. In the prison library Mitch discovers the novels of Genet and the Marquis de Sade and is inspired to write his own story-a saga of family deception, sexual obsession, and contract killing-to atone for all the blood he's spilled. But now his family wants him out and back in the killing game, a game where the rules are about to change ...