When several people drinking bottles of beer drop like flies at a local bar called the Bear's Den, Anthony Marino's best friend and bodyguard Gino intimidates the witnesses by putting on his brass knuckles, as he punches his way to the truth, he finds himself in a power struggle between the Deltora and Julio crime families. Gino, Anthony's loyal guardian and life time friend, gets separated, and confused, by the Deltora's a strange, terrible enemy. They battle on even with the local Police who looks upon the terrifying weapons of poisoned beer bottles, brass knuckles, and armor piercing bullets, with a deadly twist.