Sid and Ronnie able are husband and wife detective team, both ex-lapd. Ed and Nicole white are assassins For Hire living in the San Fernando valley. Except for a deadly aim with handguns the two couples have little in common until both are higher to do damage control as the same murder case. The previous spring of body was recovered from a storm sewer and identified as James valentine, middle age research scientists killed with two bullets to the back of his head. With the murder case turned cold, Valentine's four more employers bring in the Abel's to succeed where the police have failed, while the Hoyts mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Valentine's death stay hidden. Traumatic car chases, elicit affairs, and I'm notorious ring of Eastern European Diamond Thieves will all play into the plot of this book.