A car accident ended John Harlan's pro football career. But maybe it wasn't such a disaster after all. For Harlan knows something about the accident that no one else does. And there's a lovely, calculating lady who will give him a hundred grand if he promises not to tell. There's only one problem -- at football he'd been a pro, but at blackmail he's strictly an amateur. And amateurs usually get hurt! "Mystery and intrigue, like it used to be written, like it comes along in real life." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)