Three children grow
up together and throughout their school years are
inseparable. They experience and learn about life
together.
It is in college where they finally began to go their
own ways. Deborah Warren becomes a doctor, Timothy
Lawrence a lawyer and Nicolas Vaughn a businessman who
manufactures and sells a revolutionary valve device that
he has invented.
However, they drift apart. Nicolas becomes dissatisfied
with his life and retires to join the police department;
the other two become very successful in their specialist
fields.
Deborah discovers that rich Japanese are willing to pay
a fortune for transplants that they cannot obtain in
their country.
When a young nurse is murdered and her kidneys removed,
her father, Bartholomew Higgins, a West Texas rancher,
arrives in New York City to claim the body. After
learning how she died, he becomes enraged and sets about
to learn who is responsible.
Nicolas learns that Bartholomew Higgins was part of a
secret assassination team that roamed Vietnam. His
training is serving him well in the jungle that is New
York City ...
