Risk

George Young, a world-weary New York insurance lawyer, has taken his fair share of knocks and bruises in the business of credit, bankruptcy and fraud cases. Late one Friday, the ailing widow of Wilson Corbett, the founder of the firm George has worked for all his life, requests a meeting. At first it seems just one more unwanted call on his time, but he can't ignore it, because the elderly Mrs Corbett has recently lost her son Roger and she wants the truth about his fatal accident.

Everyone George talks to warns him off, except the dead man's girlfriend, a Czech model with dubious Russian connections, who knows more about Roger's last moments than she's letting on. But Mrs Corbett alone knows why George Young is the only man for the job.