Isaiah Quintabe, the ingenious private detective without a license, who mostly solves problems for the common people in Long Beach, L.A., comes across the wreckage of the car with which his brother Marcus was killed years ago. Quickly he realizes: it was not an accident, but murder. At the same time, his brother's girlfriend at the time comes forward - her half-sister in Las Vegas is in trouble. Hopelessly addicted to gambling, she and her boyfriend had tried to blackmail the 14K Triad. IQ and his sidekick Dodson head to Las Vegas to defuse the situation. At the same time, suspicions are stirring that IQ's dead brother Marcus may not have been a saint after all and had ties to Rwandan gangster Seb Habimana. IQ has to fight on several fronts at the same time, because in addition, an evil loan shark and the Locos Surenos 13, a powerful gang, have also joined his F.