They say being forewarned is forearmed. Perhaps, but given a second choice, Tony Boudreaux would never have pulled off I-10 to visit his old friend, Detective Ben Howard, in Galveston. Instead he would have continued his journey to his home base in Austin, Texas. But, on impulse, the newly licensed PI headed for the island city where within hours, he is accused of shooting his friend and murdering a cop he had once threatened. In his efforts to clear himself, he stumbles into the middle of a diamond smuggling caper on the Galveston docks. The players involved are some of the most powerful bosses in the underworld. From Houston to Philadelphia, word goes out to stop him. He only has hours to prove his innocence before he is measured for a new pair of concrete boots. To make matters worse, he discovers one other player is his significant other's long lost cousin.