"To diggers a thousand yeasrs from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."<br /><br />Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<br /><br />How to you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee&apos;s ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who&apos;d take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few members of the family far too much to let that happen....