Six years ago, the dead began to rise. Now, the government uses 'Deaders' (people who hunt down and eliminate the undead) to clean up the mess, so that society may continue. In the city of Liberty Noire, Walter Burr is a Deader, moonlighting for the mob and anyone who needs a hand in a discrete disposal. His most recent moonlighting gig introduces him to Charlotte, a cold and mysterious woman, who catches Walter's eye. Soon, he is thrust into a mystery that quickly escalates is a mass conspiracy, involving the living and the undead.