When the head of a notorious crime family is murdered, his son Grant is hell bent on payback and the only person that can stop him from tearing the city apart and destroying himself in the process is his best friend and federal agent, Ray Rose.
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.