As South City prepares for the Festival of Peace commemorating the end of a bloody conflict between Elves and Men, a public official is murdered and the spectre of old hostilities threaten to rise again. However, the ever-watchful Council has no intention of allowing civil unrest and call upon their newest agent, the Bounty Hunter Wolfwalker But before Wolfwalker can find the killer, he must confront the worst of South City's underworld and face the legendary 'Spirit of Pursuit', The Gray Man