If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington, D.C., private detective Robert Brixton discovers the answer is a resounding “Yes,” as he helps Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father after his murder and the theft of papers detailing his discoveries.

Did her father’s lab assistant kill the doctor and steal his research, and is Jayla herself now at risk? And to what lengths would Big Pharma’s leading lobbyist go to cover up his involvement with King’s death...and to protect a leading champion of the pharmaceutical industry, a Georgia senator with a shady past? No pill can ease the pain that the answers to these questions will inflict.