Murderers know they can take their time, but bank robbers live by an inviolable rule: Don't tarry in the bank longer than two minutes or you'll wind up in the clinker. When career criminal Max Holman broke the guideline, he paid ten years for his mistake. On the day of his eagerly anticipated release, he learns that his son, an LAPD officer, has been gunned down. Investigators assure him that the killer acted alone and then committed suicide, but for cynical Max, the explanation just doesn't cut the mustard. With the help of the only woman he trusts, he turns his hard-knocks schooling to a good purpose. A gritty, plausible noir thriller.