"I was actually becoming paranoid, an obvious emotional result of my guilt and fear. Me, George Lamont: the confident, self-assured consultant to heads of corporations and federal officials. What had taken hold of me?"

On a routine business trip, industrial consultant George Lamont checks into a motel room in South Carolina and finds a leather case containing more than $2 million. Arrogance and greed prevent him from immediately reporting his find to authorities, not knowing how his selfish actions will set off a chain reaction of violence and greed.

When those who want the money...