Overview

Who says academia isn't the real world? It's got the vanity of professional sports; the hypocrisy of politics; the cruelty of big business; and the inhumanity of organized crime. A perfect setting for murder and satire.

Nick Hoffman's been warned by his chair at the State University of Michigan to avoid trouble if he has any hopes of getting tenure. But his presence at the scene of a murder that involves a favorite student immediately threatens his position at the university, and soon after, his life.