Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance have a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he is worth, but they need a girl on the inside to make it work. Evelyn Stone, Gunderman's secretary, his lover, and his worst enemy is ready to help.

To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?