An ice-cold stiff ignites a burning racial war in The Shadow: Hell's Heat Wave! In the muddy waters of the East River, New York's Finest are fishing for the frozen corpse of a Chinese John Doe. When they reel him in and cut him open they find a woman's severed finger stuffed in his sewn-shut mouth, an executioner's game traditionally dealt by the Sicilian mob. It's clan against family, race against race, as spilled blood boils on the dirty avenues of Gotham. Everyone is looking for someone to blame, but one man is looking for the truth. One man known as... The Shadow.