Jim Profit uses the death of a Vice-President at Gracen & Gracen, and every dirty trick in the book (plus a few tricks he invents), to position himself to assume the position of the dead man's boss, Jack Walters.
Gracen & Gracen has a new employee, Sykes, whom is not what he appears to be, and the game of cat and mouse is turned on it's head, with Jim in the position of the mouse. Jim's stepmother Bobby shows back up, with blackmail.