Andy CarpenterтАЩs accountant, Sam Willis, is stunned to receive a phone call out of the blue from Barry Price, a high school friend he hasnтАЩt spoken to in years, pleading for help with something too frightening to discuss on the phone. Barry needs SamтАЩs financial acumen and lawyer Andy CarpenterтАЩs legal expertiseтАФand he needs them immediately. But when Sam almost runs over an injured dog lying in the road on the way to BarryтАЩs house, he canтАЩt drive off without waiting for help to arrive. By the time Sam makes it, BarryтАЩs already taken off on a private airplane headed who-knows-where. Assuming their help is no longer needed, Sam and Andy turn their full attention to helping the dog Sam found recover from his injuries. Then they learn that BarryтАЩs plane has crashed, and they come to the terrifying realization that Sam was also supposed to have been killed on that plane. Barry was in far more serious trouble than either of them knew, and for Sam and Andy, the trouble is only beginning.