Did Max Fisher ever love his wife Deirdre? Maybe once, briefly—but that was a long time ago. Now he just wishes she were gone, so he wouldn't have to keep hiding his affair with his gorgeous Irish-American executive assistant, Angela. But how do you arrange for an unwanted spouse to disappear?

The old-fashioned way: You hire a hit man. But the man Max hires—an ex-IRA bruiser of Angela's acquaintance—is an uncontrollable sociopath. He's also, secretly, Angela's boyfriend. And he and and Angela have plans for Max that the philandering businessman might not care for...