Joshua Ryan, a young retired lawyer is again thrown into a legal and deadly maelstrom. A billion dollar merger may be causing the deaths of the only people who can stop the merger, the senior employees of Comtel International.

Living in Paris, Ryan is entreated by his former mentor Samuel Waterman to investigate the sudden and unexplained death of Waterman's sister, a senior employee of Comtel, the largest entertainment company in the United States.

Comtel had lost a class action suit brought on by several senior employees for using chemicals that were harmful to the employees safety. If the billion dollar class action judgment stands, Comtel could lose its merger deal with AMT Cable, the largest cable and entertainment distributor in the world.

Ryan teams up with his private investigator and father-in-law Yehuda Ben Zvi to unearth the reasons behind the deaths of those Comtel senior employees involved in the class action suit.

Facing them is the United States Senator who started Comtel and who still owns a large percentage of the shares. His son, Jack Evans, is the current president and CEO of Comtel.

The political and legal fallout of the Comtel merger involves the U.S. Attorneys Office in Florida, represented by Everett Lawrence, and wends its way up to the president of the United States.

Ryan and his team unravel the mysterious deaths of those ten senior employees and struggle through the financial maze that reminds one not only of the Enron and WorldCom debacles but also the multi-billion dollar deals that are so popular in todays financial world.