An Afghanistan veteran has murdered his wife and six year old son and then committed suicide. Soon there are similar horrific murders around the country.

Sgt Major Crane, a military police detective, knows there must be a connection. But what?

Crane starts to investigate the local Church Solomon was attending.  But with the body count rising, events start to take a darker turn ... could the Church be the connection? Is the Church offering salvation?  Or is it forcing people to take the first, untimely Steps to Heaven?

Dour and inscrutable, Crane riles against the restraints of the chain of command in his determination to bring wrong-doers to justice.