Over the next several days, Raymond teaches Kinsey how he and his gang defraud insurance companies by staging car accidents and reporting fake injuries with the help of cooperative medical professionals and attorneys.

Kinsey eventually establishes that the leak is a clerk at the County Sheriff's office, whose father is a crooked chiropractor involved with Raymond's gang.

Kinsey sets off in hot pursuit and receives unexpected help from Luis, who turns out to be an undercover officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Kinsey makes it back to Santa Teresa in time for her friend Vera Lipton's wedding, but is fired from her job by new Vice President Gordon Titus.

With a first printing of 170,000 copies, this book earned a place on the New York Times hard-cover best-seller list just two weeks after initial publication.