On the day of the latest stock market crash, twenty-two people plunged to their deaths from New York City skyscrapers. One of them was pushed.
That's a nice opening, don'tcha think?
Alan Webster, our narrator, was part of a gang that robbed a casino. Everything went perfect except the casino turned out to be owned by the mob and the mob doesn't collect their insurance and shrug it off when that sort of thing happens.
So they all went into hiding. Alan is in Australia when he hears that Fred supposedly jumped out a window. He doesn't believe it so he decides to be proactive, so to speak, by heading back to New York and convincing the mob that he is too much trouble to kill.
There is, it seems to me, a significant plot hole in the story (how did X find out about Y?) but it didn't keep me from enjoying it.
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