Financial fraud at its most ingenious. A cunning criminal and an equally shrewd fraud expert match wits in a murderous, high-stakes embezzlement.
Ross Taylor is living the dream. Successful wife, enough money to enjoy life, and a home aboard a fifty-foot yacht in Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. Recently fired as an insurance executive, he consults part-time as a fraud specialist. Life is good. Meanwhile, Jacques Levesque directs a wildly successful, Seattle-based insurance business. He has also conceived a foolproof scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars from Great Chicago Insurance Company. The chief executive of Great Chicago, Christine Bell, knows something is wrong inside her company-terribly wrong. Profits have been plummeting. Her future, and that of her company, is at stake. She hires Ross Taylor to find answers. As Taylor closes in on the criminals, the stakes rise to a deadly level, and the forces converge in a race between escape and discovery.