Houdini is enlisted by the US Ambassador to Great Britain to locate a missing American doctor and discovers a plot by a fanatical scientist hell-bent on unleashing a modern-day Black Plague on Vienna
Ray, a 17-year-old social outcast, is kidnapped by a charismatic, violent stranger. But instead of becoming his latest victim, Ray and his captor, Shepard, form a teacher/student relationship based on vengeance and pain. As the body count of his tormentors begins to rise, Ray realizes he’s trapped in Shepard’s violent world from which there can be no escape.
