About
In 1860s New York, a time where disorder and mayhem are the law of the
land, Detective Kevin Corcoran – a rugged Irish immigrant cop – seeks
justice for the powerless in the notoriously dangerous Five Points
neighbourhood. Bonded by battle to two Civil War compatriots – the
wayward son of a wealthy industrialist and an African-American physician
who secretly assists the forensic investigations – Corcoran is thrust
into the contrasting worlds of elegant and corrupt Fifth Avenue, and the
emerging African-American community in Northern Manhattan. On a
backdrop of intrigue, corruption, mystery and murder, the three men find
their lives inextricably linked by a secret from the battlefield.
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