A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer
used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant
interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the
city by the Bay, everyone has to pay . . .
Down-and-out-lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered
woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the
evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay. Dead. But
a friend of Ingraham's, former cop and prosecutor Dismas
Hardy, isn't so sure. And Hardy has to find out, because a
stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill
Ingraham and Dismas Hardy both.
Now, to save his own skin, Dismas must face down liars and
killers on both sides of the law. From mob foot soldiers
to brokenhearted lovers to renegade cops, a dozen lives
are tied to the fate of Rusty Ingraham - and the payback
has only just begun . . .