Cool, sharp, streetwise, Sam Jones is a breathless heroine of charming stubbornness, quick repartee and impulsive conduct who attracts trouble like she does men. Finding herself in the midst of a twisted intrigue of blackmail and drug-taking, surrounded by anorexic Sloanes, raucous merchant bankers and a series of very expensive dinners, Sam is in a world not her own; and as the deaths increase she comes to realises that her own life is at risk.