"Deaths in New York and surrounding states are piling up. Drug dealers, gang-bangers and police alike are dying violently as the supply of black market guns on the streets is out of control. Merlin Arthur Dragon, Interpol's new (and only) Stopper, is thrown into the deep end of the pool before he is ready and sent to end the carnage. His assignment is to stop the gun runners and their steady stream of weapons from flowing up the Iron Pipeline, Interstate I-95 and its connector highways in the United States. But as Merlin struggles to learn on the job, he uncovers a conspiracy that will send a ripple of fear through law enforcement and threaten the lives of untold numbers unless stopped."