The brash and resourceful St. Paul private investigator Holland Taylor takes
on an unpromising embezzlement casean elderly woman has been cheated out of her life
savings. But when Taylor tracks down Levering Field, the unscrupulous businessman who
handled her investments, he finds that more is at stakeMrs. Gustafsons financial ruin is
only one strand in a spiders web of fraud and intrigue.

With the help of his elegant attorney lady love and an eccentric computer-genius friend, Taylor
starts probing under cover into Fields activities and soon finds that someone seems anxious to
derail his investigation. The game quickly becomes serious when Field is found shot to death
and Taylor first is suspected of the crime and then is shot at himself.

Frightened at the dangerously widening net but determined to get answers, Taylor follows a trail
to computer records that reveal a list of prominent people with large investments in Fields operations.
Millions of dollars are at stake, as well as the reputations of the most powerful people in The Cities.

As a hired killer pursues him, Taylor races to put together the last pieces of the puzzle, find the money,
and catch the people who are willing to do anything to stop him.