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The telephone's insistent ringing at three in the morning snatched Sam Workman from dreamless sleep. Hello he mumbled. This is a warning said a digitally altered voice. Leave Betterton now! If you don't you won't live long enough to regret it. Who is this? Sam angrily demanded to a dead line. Unknown name unknown number blinked the call identifier. Coward! Workman growled and slammed down the receiver. The call was the first episode in a conspiracy to force Sam and his business B&W Concrete out of Betterton or destroy them. Followed were attempts to oust B&W from two construction projects a hospital addition and an engine plant totaling $400 million in construction costs to yield B&W $10 million profits. Sam retains attorney Penn Roman to stem the tide of disastrous actions drowning B&W in a flood of claims of incompetency and fraud and more threats and violence against Sam Penn and Penn's family. When a testing lab employee working on the projects disappears and the newspaper prints libelous articles condemning B&W Penn and Sam find themselves entangled in a web of greed deceit violence and murder. Courageously they face the schemers in an explosive and telling trial to the finish.