Description:

Three children grow up together and throughout their school years are inseparable. They experience and learn about life together. But in college they finally begin to go their own ways. Deborah Warren becomes a doctor, Timothy Lawrence a lawyer and Nicolas Vaughn a businessman who manufactures and sells a revolutionary valve device that he has invented. However, they drift apart. Nicolas becomes dissatisfied with his life and retires to join the police department; the other two become very successful in their specialist fields. Deborah discovers that rich Japanese are willing to pay a fortune for transplants that they cannot obtain in their country. When a young nurse is murdered and her kidneys removed, her father, Bartholomew Higgins, arrives in New York City to claim the body. After learning how she died, he becomes enraged and sets about to learn who is responsible....