Richard Bronner, model citizen and president of the prestigious local college, had no criminal experience, and he didn't know any criminals, or how to think like a criminal. He didn't even watch crime shows on television, but he knew he was headed down a criminal path. Where would it lead, and how he would get there? He didn't know that, either, but he knew that he was about to go... somewhere, down an unknown, dark lane. And Tommy Burkett was hitchhiking on it.An innocent act, an innocent exchange of words, and the president and the janitor were fatally linked. An inexpert act becomes a near-perfect murder. But paranoia overcomes Bronner's psyche and his ego overcomes his good sense, and we watch a midlife crisis that kills.