James McGettigan, engineer and accident investigator, faces indictment for murdering Donald Hartnett, a billionaire CEO. After a modern-day duel where McGettigan died first, not the CEO, James bets his future on making a Grand Jury grasp the ironic reality of the duel, not the headlines.Twisted schemes deposit James deep within a series of betrayals by friends and family. Murder, white-slavery and political corruption; tower cranes which topple from buildings; a yacht which sinks with McGettigan on-board and drugged; a US Attorney who's lost her way; the cunning Queen of Frozen Foods; and an excommunicated Jesuit turned hit-man-each move James like a chess pawn, until thirty stories above Jersey City streets, pure evil offers James a trade: Save your son and lose your soul, or save a construction elevator full of people and lose yourself.