LAWREN HALL

Nineteen sixty-three should have been a year of prominence and prosperity for Ozias Williams, but instead it was a year of turbulence. Two years earlier Ozias had established himself in the writing game and published his first novel. With the money he earned from the sale of his book, and some cash he acquired, Ozias opens his own laundry business in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Being new to the business he hires an accountant named Jeffery Leland to manage his finances and keep the business on track, but Jeffery misappropriates funds, takes flight and leaves business in financial ruin. Ozias stands to loose everything if he doesn’t come up with five grand in one week. Things take a turn for the worse when a strange man walks into his small establishment and makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Strapped for cash, and a strong desire to save his dying business, Ozias is forced to take on the strange man’s proposition.