If you want to be feared, find the most unyielding person and crush them—this is the infallible rule. That’s exactly what a gang of “horse traders” plans to do, having discovered that their schemes are threatened by their colleague’s excessive scrupulousness. But Jonas Derham only seems gentle and accommodating. Steel determination hides behind his outward intelligence. And soon the fraudsters regretted that they got involved with him in the first place…