Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren, and Ted Turner enjoy life insurance policies in excess of $25 million paid for by their corporations as an executive perk.
Three famous and wealthy men with similar multi-million dollar Jupiter-Saturn policies are murdered within months of each other by a killer who gets up close and personal and uses hand held weapons. The insurance company hires private investigator Dan Ballantine to review the murders and, hopefully, identify the killer. He visits the kill sites, reads the police reports, and advises his employer the murders are so ‘clean’ he doubts the killer will be identified, captured, or successfully prosecuted.
Ballantine tows his travel trailer to a Malibu Beach resort and spends part of each day in Jupiter-Saturn’s Los Angeles headquarters. With the help of an attractive computer technician, Pearl the Girl, Ballantine searches for an employee who leaked the rich victims’ identities. When he discovers the employee has no information to identify the killer, he begins to review bad faith lawsuits filed against the insurance company. He hopes to find a person so angry he would murder innocent insureds to cause severe losses to the company.
While Ballantine works, the killer strikes again in San Jose and the Napa Valley.
When Ballantine conclude the next victim will be Nevada Supreme Court Justice John Blair, he pulls his trailer to Carson City and searches for the successful killer whom he knows will never be convicted.