Then one night, as New York settles into the worst snowstorm in decades, Max's partner is murdered, Max is framed for it, and his cover is blown.
Three years later, Max has transferred to the DEA and gone undercover with the Punchinello crime family, intending to bring the Valkyr drug ring down once and for all. NYPD detective Max Payne's wife and baby daughter are killed in their home by junkies strung out on the designer drug Valkyr.
