Set in early 1950s Chicago, Private Investigator Cobb is advised by his mentor, a tough city detective, to accept a job. The client: the last Black holdout bucking the Outfit's takeover of the policy racket. Cobb and his mentor rub shoulders with a Who's Who on Bronzeville's main thoroughfare, 47th Street, while being taken on a ride that shows where politics, law enforcement and the underworld intersect.
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