The Encounter

With extra time on his hands at the end of
an exhausting eight-day business trip, a successful
middle-aged businessman, happily married for sixteen years
to the woman of his dreams, does something he's never done
before-or even contemplated-for reasons not entirely clear
even to himself. He invites a prostitute to his hotel room.
What he expected to be a brief, insignificant sexual liaison
ends up turning his life upside down, embroiling him with a
deranged Russian mobster determined to destroy his career,
his financial security, the safety of his wife and two
teenage daughters-and his life. This is the story of Ron
Steele-a modern day Everyman, hard-working, responsible,
devoted to his family-who faces the ultimate price for a
sudden, and uncharacteristically impulsive lapse in
judgment. Overnight, Ron's protected, safe, and orderly
life is thrown into turmoil. All that he's worked so hard
and methodically to build and protect, his family, his
career, his wealth, is suddenly on the brink of
destruction-unless, that is, he takes matters quickly into
his own hands.