A sweet smile, a charming face, an enchanting voice, a helpful and friendly employee - Kathleen is all that. She's also an ex-con who happens to work as executive secretary for the investment company of Mr. Saunders. She calls Sergeant Crowley's CC unit one morning and advises them the building where her office is located about be be robbed but hangs up before any further information can be imparted. A non-violent robbery occurs but one of the robbers is killed. Crowley is faced with one of the most baffling cases of his career. Soon, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous cat-and-mouse game, which is far more convoluted than it initially appears -- and at the wrong end of a gun.
—Jasper P. Morgan