Licker Street is the rotten heart of Well Spring, a city where corruption flows like a current. Officer Sanchez, an old beat cop, has spent years fighting it, a weary man who trusts no one. In a place where the sane are branded insane, survival means surrender. Sanchez refuses.

But when a string of savage murders shatters his hard-won certainty, the evidence points not to a man, but to something else. Something primal. Aided by a mysterious contact from the underworld, Sanchez begins digging for a truth the city is desperate to keep buried. But in Well Spring, some secrets have teeth, and he's about to learn how deep they bite.