Tory's company has been hired to oversee the construction of a new sport stadium, on a local university campus.
Trouble begins when when a discrepancy, involving the pouring of concrete columns, is discovered.
Tory is forced to travel to El Paso, to meet with the quality control technician, and to review the documentation, on the column pours. The technician is murdered, the records are stolen, and Tory becomes a prime suspect. Enter David Alvarez, the detective in charge of the murder investigation. Brash, and self-assured, he and Tory soon lock horns, each determined not to cooperate with each other. The plot flows smoothly, with all questions neatly summed up, by the end of the novel.