Buying Time: 1 (Dre Thomas)

Waverly Sloan is a down-on-his-luck lawyer. But just when hes about to hit rock bottom he stumbles upon a business with the potential to solve all of his problems. In Waverlys new line of work he comes to the aid of people in desperate need of cash. But theres a catch. His clients must be terminally ill and willing to sign over rights to their life insurance policies before they can collect a dime. Waverly then finds investors eager to advance them thousands of dollars--including a hefty brokers fee for himself--in exchange for a significant return on their investment once the clients take their last breath. The stakes get higher when Waverly brokers the policy of the cancer-stricken wife of Lawrence Erickson a high-powered lawyer whos bucking to become the next U.S. Attorney General. When Waverlys clients start dying sooner than they should both Waverly and Erickson--who has some skeletons of his own to hide--are unwittingly drawn into a perilous web of greed blackmail and murder.