Now that private investigator Sharon McCone has struck out on her own, she needs all the clients she can get - even a shady character from her Berkeley days. T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon has made millions as a turnaround artist who creates profits and enemies while reviving failed businesses. From the moment he whisks McCone off in his private helicopter, complaining of death threats, her life will never be the same. After McCone saves Gordon from an explosion, he performs another kind of turnaround: he vanishes. Following the trail of Gordon's past leads McCone from a thriving Nevada tourist trap to a grim Pennsylvania steel town. She is desperate to find him - before a deadly confrontation with his California dreams blows them both out of the sky.