In the grimy, vibrant heart of 1990s Chinatown, Miles Landry, a hard-boiled PI haunted by loss, finds his world upended. When a bizarrely cultured Buddhist monk hires him to investigate a series of gruesome murders—deaths the police dismiss as gang violence but the monk insists are the work of a reincarnated wrathful deity—Miles is pulled into a spiritual and criminal underworld he never knew existed. Can he reconcile his cynical realism with ancient prophecies and vengeful spirits, or will the truth behind the "Chinatown Monster" claim him next?