Julian Berger, a charismatic young man with a magnetic personality and movie star-good looks is an accomplished scam-artist. After a series of successful scores scamming local drug dealers, he follows Bruce and Jill to Acapulco where they are vacationing. While there, he meets one of their friends, a wealthy, widowed New York socialite. He weaves a web of deceit to engineer a three million dollar diamond heist and then scams the FBI when they set up a sting operation to recover the stolen diamonds. After successfully avoiding prosecution for the theft of the diamonds, he once again ends up on the FBI's radar screen, but this time they enlist his con-artistry to thwart the attempt of a terrorist cell in South Florida to acquire Stinger missiles to bring down passenger jets departing three of Florida's major airports. This is the fifth book in the series of humorous novels about Baltimore attorney, C. Bruce West.