Leo Selver is very much hoping to seduce Judy Latimer, and to forget for a while his graying age, the death of his son, and the collapse of his marriage. But someone is watching Leo, and his business associate Sidney Chard as well. Then Sidney turns up dead. Lucky for Leo, his old family friend Ed Buchanan takes an interest in clearing his name. George Sims's 1976 thriller takes an unexpected turn fairly early on, proving that Sims was never one for conventional storytelling.