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A wealthy doctor offers Portland P.I. Jason (Jayce) Freeh one hundred thousand dollars to set up a shadowy individual who calls himself Paladin. To help his HIV-positive son end his life, the doctor has made a deal with Paladin, a former Viet Nam war protester with previous experience in assisted suicide, but the religious fundamentalist doctor also wants Paladin to pay for his sins.Jayce takes the down payment, and over the next seventy-two hours his life is thrown into a tailspin as he deals with his married girlfriend, a self-admitted killer and members of a right wing religious group.