Professional assassin Patrick Stone has been hired to kill Georgio Stephano, a reprisal, for unpaid gambling debts. Owing large sums of money he couldn't repay, Stephano fled to the safety of a Benedictine Monastery, leaving all his debts and the chaos of his personal life behind.

Five years later Stephano finally leaves the Monastery, and is given a strange artefact as a farewell gift by the Abbot. Upon leaving, Stephano's movements are tracked by his creditors, and a hired assassin finally catches up with him. The unsuspecting victim is caught completely unawares and the murderous mission is accomplished with the perpetrator Patrick Stone's particular hallmark style!

Stone catches the late night train to Liverpool, in anticipation of receiving a handsome fee from his clients the next morning. However, as the journey progresses, events take on a sinister chain of inexplicable strange occurrences. Unaccustomed to fear at any level, Stone begins to experience a rising chill and intense feelings of dread, as unimaginable and terrifying consequences to his final dark deed slowly begin to unfold...