Plot Summary

Richard Wentworth is a decorated war hero who has sacrificed everything, including the woman he loves, for duty. But the New York City Wentworth returns to is riddled with crime and corruption. With the police overwhelmed and a populace helpless, Wentworth becomes The Spider, a vigilante as ruthless and merciless as the criminals he hunts. But now there's a new danger on the rise as the deranged terrorist Anput launches a series of attacks using a gas that turns ordinary citizens into mindless zombies, bringing the city and the police force to its knees. Richard Wentworth discovers the gas may have been developed by his father's chemical company and begins to investigate his father while simultaneously battling Anput and her brutal bodyguard. Meanwhile Detective Hilt suspects that Wentworth is The Spider and goes as far as endangering innocent civilians to prove his theory. All this and Richard's love for his ex fiancée, now married to one of his closest friends and who happens to be the police commissioner of New York, is driving him to alcoholism! But The Spider will stop at nothing to save the city he's sworn to protect.