Charles Paris’s acting career plumbs new depths when he takes the part of a possible murder victim in Public Enemies, a true-crime television series. Finding himself in a bizarre world somewhere between police procedure and showbiz, Charles is inexorably drawn into the investigation ... especially after the dismembered limbs start turning up. The viewers of Public Enemies get caught up in the macabre jigsaw puzzle of death; it is ghastly, of course, but it does make good television. As the program’s ratings soar, so the egos behind the scene become ever more inflated, and Charles ever more determined to solve the mystery.