William Krause is ingenious and cold-hearted. What else do you call a loan shark that requires his borrower to buy life insurance and make the shark the beneficiary? The borrower becomes worth more dead than alive. Don't pay your vig, Kaiser Bill has you offed and collects the
life insurance money.

The scam works until a brilliant new junior executive at Michigan Life and Casualty sniffs it out. With the help of his insurance-investigator uncle and a crafty Atlanta detective, the scam falls apart.

Kaiser Bill and his younger son face prosecution, but one son, the brains of the operation, escapes arrest and seeks revenge. What the brain doesn't know is that he has messed with the wrong family.