When Victor Grant, a private investigator, gets a call from Detective Captain Walt Ritter from the San Francisco Police Department he gets an offer he can’t refuse. As a former police detective with the SFPD, Victor and Walt are old friends. The assignment seems simple. A wealthy widowed relative of Walt’s wants a bodyguard to escort her on a very secretive trip to Hawaii where she plans to buy something. She won’t divulge what it is, but she is a well-known art collector, so it’s assumed it’s a valuable art object.