Johnny Sundown, Private Investigator in 1950's Chicago and a practitioner of magic, takes on a case to find a missing runaway girl, only to discover she has already been murdered by a psychotic serial killer. Determined to bring him to the kind of justice only magic can inflict, he finds himself dealing with a magician visiting from out of town, the Russian, Ivan Sukut. Together they join forces to take down the murdering monster and form a fast friendship.Then Johnny learns Ivan may have a secret agenda. One that could utterly destroy the United States of America.