When a U.S. senator is named as a possible vice presidential running mate, all hell breaks out in his attempt to hide that he has a weakness for sadistic sex with rent-boys. When his thugs mess up an attempt to silence one in a D.C. hotel, snitches descend on D.C. vice cop Hardesty, not a stranger to vice himself, particularly with snitch rent-boys. Hardesty's attempts to figure out what is what and who is doing who are complicated by his own partner's decision to freelance blackmail the situation and to cut down on the competition in the process. Hardesty's efforts to save the one rent-boy who isn't snitching leads him on a merry out-of-town chase.