It is set in Washington, D.C., and focuses on marketing executive Nick Stefanos as he investigates the disappearance of a colleague.

Nick Stefanos is a marketing executive for electrical goods chain Nutty Nathan's.

Stefanos is fired from his job at Nutty Nathan's but the reason for his dismissal does not become clear until the end of the book.

The novel is concerned with substance abuse both by the main characters and facilitated by the drug distributors.

The reviewer commented that the plot was perfunctory and that the novel was more concerned with examining the lives of the salesmen.