At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choise of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert& Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beauteful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail - already knew. You never get anything for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice - if he wants to live.