Marshal Bailey goes undercover to take down a ruthless psychologist who moonlights as a hit man for a high powered Hedge Fund Manager. The doctor hypnotizes patients to commit murders to further advance the business of the Banker, once the clients figure out what he's really doing with their money. Once the Banker finishes plundering the client's accounts he has them killed so he can manage their estates. The Banker just keeps folding one client in for another and taking their money to fund his lavish lifestyle and investment losses. While undercover Marshal Bailey finds himself the target and ultimately the victim of this upscale game of bait and switch when the Banker plunders through Bailey's stock portfolio and then hangs him out to dry for the psychologist to rid him of. But the psychologist finds herself on the list of suspects when the client she uses turns out to be Marshal Bailey's long time partner Marshal Laura McKnight. When the murder scheme is foiled the murderous psychologist flees the country taking Marshal Bailey and his partner half way around the world to effectuate an arrest warrant after a cold blooded shot out that leaves a hard worker peace officer dead in a hotel lobby. Follow Marshal Bailey as he breaks his cover to rescue his partner from a coldblooded desperate sociopath of a psychologist hell bent on escaping persecution in RUTHLESS.