Charlton Price-Leigh III came to the Texas panhandle to win approval for a potentially life-threatening nuclear waste dump. What he got was a knife in the chest. The police have only one suspect -- the owner of the wheat field where Charlton's naked body was found. Luckily, his lawyer is John Lloyd Branson. Together with his beautiful assistant, Lydia Fairchild, Branson begins to unravel a conspiracy with consequences that ring across the whole state of Texas -- and beyond . . .