Asian scholar and black belt artist Connor Burke labors as a deshia student under the tutelage of a master warrior a practice that draws him into the executionstyle murder of a Japanese businessman in Brooklyn. Connors brother an officer in the NYPD enlists him to decipher the strange calligraphic writing left by the victim at the crime scene. The enigmatic message leads Connor to the lethal samurai heritage of a mysterious martial arts sensei the foreboding world of a Tibetan clairvoyant and