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Sean's impression of their potential client is that he is a brat only child of an overly protective mother, both given to exaggeration and hyperbole. The young man in question had been fired from his job a night janitor with a cleaning firm and after insisting on talking to his manager about it, ends up facing criminal charges for making threats. His mother wants Sean and Cindy to check with some witnesses that her son had not acted the way his ex-employer had described, and they were just out to get him because they were all a bunch of Nazis. Sean isn't very enthusiastic about the case, but its work, business is slow, and the young man is a promising young boxer. Plus, Sean has to admit, the young man's employers did seem to have over-reacted a lot. Then over-night, literally, the case becomes far more serious after the manger is found murdered and their client is the prime suspect. Cindy convinces their client's court-appointed lawyer to keep them on as the investigators for the case, as she and Sean look for evidence that someone besides their client was involved in the killing. Then abruptly, she and Sean get fired and it takes a while to discover that the lawyer's paralegal had seen Cindy as a rival with the lawyer for his affections and so sabotaged their work. While Cindy is trying to get them back on the case, Sean notices that an oddly large number of businesses located in the building where this janitor firm cleans have gone out of business or had some catastrophic disaster, all related to someone getting inside information on the business and exploiting it. Could the "someone" in question be working for the janitorial firm? Then they find out that their client's mother wasn't kidding when she said the family running the company were a bunch of Nazis. The ancient patriarch of the family, as it turns out, was a member of the Hungarian Iron Cross. He was a ruthless killer with no scruples, but that doesn't explain who murdered his grandson. Sean and Cindy have to put the clues together to catch the killer before their client's inept arrogant lawyer and his paramour paralegal botch the case entirely and send a young man to prison for life.

Sean is asked by a boxing trainer to find outwhy a promising teenage boxer has suddenlybecome morose and depressed. Before Seangets around to doing so, the young man isfound dead; an apparent suicide after havingjumped off a building. Motivated by guilt, Seanconvinces Cindy to leave the public defender'soffice and join him in a private investigationagency with the death of Damiyun Walker astheir first case. Cindy and Sean become bothbusiness partners and lovers.They discovered that Damiyun had found outthat a thirteen year old Vietnamese girl wasbeing used as a sex slave by a local gang and hewas killed when he tried to rescue her. Thehomicide detective looking into these twodeaths also ends up dead under circumstanceswhich indicate someone in law enforcement isbehind running the sex slavery of Vietnamesegirls in Portland. Sean, a Vietnam vet, has toconnect with his past contacts in the Marinecorps to find out who in Portland has theconnections in Vietnam to get these girls pastICE enforcement, and ends up in ashow-down with the ringleader.

Sean O'Connor, retired boxer, is asked by Maybelle Preacher to check out the boxing gym her grandson joined. Doing a quick check, Sean agrees that the place feels wrong. To help him find out exactly what, he contacts the professional private investigator, Cindy Matasar, who helped him with his car accident. While they begin their investigation together, quickly developing a romantic interest, they soon learn that their efforts are not appreciated by well placed political figures. When boxers from he and his friend's gym end up murdered, Sean and Cindy find themselves targets of a well-organized criminal enterprise with political clout. Just when they think they know who is behind it all, they find their prime suspect has been dead for years. Now it is a race against time to uncover the killer before he strikes any closer to home.

Cindy is assigned as the investigator to what would appear to be an open and shut case of wife-beater killing his wife, but she and the public defender lawyer assigned to it, Janet Bowers, find odd facts that point to their client being framed for a crime he didn't commit. Since their client is a retired professional boxer, they ask Sean to look into his past to see if there is anything in it which would point to someone with a motive for framing their client for murder. Looking into the past, Sean discovers several boxers had the odd ill fate that their client has had, and they all had one thing in common, they beat a boxer named Cade Fulmer many years ago, whose current presentations as a motivational speaker indicate a psychotic level of grandiosity. Sean is able to trap Fulmer into making admissions and freeing their client from the false charges. Working together, Cindy and Sean become romantically attracted to each other.