A Ph.D. toxicologist takes a management position with the coroner’s office and realizes her boss is stealing.
 
After acknowledging questionable practices in a staff meeting, she is asked to break the law, refuses, gets a pink slip and sues her former employer—the highest paid public official in Louisiana, for wrongful termination.  Discovery granted in court provides incriminating documents.  The husband allies with a local good government group and provides the criminal proof to an award-winning journalist, who excoriates the coroner in a series of blistering articles, culminating with the coroner’s resignation, conviction and incarceration.  The husband and his newfound corruption-fighting friends, now adept at these things, continue their heroic plight and nail over two dozen more public officials gone bad.
 
At the end the group recounts its triumphs, sharing the secrets of their unlikely, amazing success, hopeful of a more involved, and better America.