Billionaire Thomas Poole Sr. does not believe his son died from an overdose. As he watches the life support being pulled from Michael’s body he wants vengeance - and not on any street level punks. He makes a call to fellow Vietnam Vet Joe Kranken, who puts together a wrecking explosives, computer and surveillance experts. The expertise in violence and mayhem he provides himself. And while Joe Kranken’s crew work their way up from the streets, in a neighboring town Barry Johnson, medical doctor and amateur boxer, stumbles on narcotic thefts at his local hospital. When Nurse Debbie Vanter dies mysteriously on a mountain road, and a terminal patient complains about her pain killers, Barry finds himself drawn into a quagmire of deceit and murder. - and things don’t get better when he is confronted by an ice cold Joe Kranken who tells him the Mafia wants him dead... A fast, scary thriller that will make you think twice about that next hospital stay.
