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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.