Seattle Police homicide detective J.P. Beaumont is called in to investigate a body floating in nearby Elliott Bay. The case draws Seattle's favorite detective into the cutting-edge world of bio-technology, where business as usual means personal betrayals and selling trade secrets with ruthless efficiency. The more Beau uncovers about the unsavory life of the corpse, the more he's convinced that justice has already been served. With his personal life converging into his professional one, detective Beaumont struggles to find a killer he doesn't really want to find...