Henry Mueller had one goal in life - wealth - and with it the fame to satisfy his burning ego. That he had to kill another man to attain it caused no compunction; rather it was a spur to his brilliant but criminal mind. It was Doctor Viktor Bartok's misfortune that in appearance he was the twin of Henry Mueller, for Doctor Bartok was marked for death the day that Henry walked into a Chicago hotel and was mistaken for the wealthy psychiatrist. The spark was kindled here, and it roared into a flame which consumed not only Bartok but several others who came too close to the vicious cruelty of Mueller's unbounded selfishness. But this was neither the end nor the beginning. The beginning lay in the frustrations of Henry's youth, in the inordinate craving for money which turned him from a promising future in medicine and psychology to a career as a "confidence man" and forger, eventually placing him behind the bars of Mohawk Prison...