Payback

Geoff Summers is a brilliant designer of electronic control systems for a company that makes and installs anti-burglar equipment. When his wife Penny dies following a brain operation, Geoff’s life is shattered.

Worse, his vindictive new managing director prevents Geoff from fulfilling Penny’s dying wish. Embittered, Geoff is determined to bring the man down.

Geoff alters a few controllers that are to be used on jobs in progress. One is for the home of Jim Warwick, a car dealer who has made the bulk of his fortune by trading in drugs. Geoff changes the controllers so that they can be switched off by a special remote that he has made in secret. He quits his job and teams up with a gang of criminals, using his remote to pull off several lucrative heists.

The last job takes place at Warwick’s house where the story reaches its explosive climax. Geoff’s revenge is ingenious, slow and sweet.