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Determined to avenge himself against the person responsible for his imprisonment, high-stakes thief Johnny Frank finds his plans going awry when his target's son is taken hostage by kidnappers who demand a ransom of rare pink diamonds, a cache that Johnny invented as a key component of his plot.

Johnny Frank has just been released from prison, and intends to have his payback. After convincing his betrayer, ruthless Jim Buckley, that he's on the up-and-up, the incentive of an imaginary haul of diamondsalong with a more immediate cash sweeteneris enough to secure an invitation to his home. Once there, Johnny subtly begins to spread suspicion. Johnny plays the first of his hands; he makes the Buckleys an offer they've been waiting fora cut of the proceeds if they help him recover his stash. What the Buckleys don't know is that this is part of Johnny's plan to destroy their family. But plans go awry when Buckley's son, Marc, is taken hostage, and his ransom is the same bogus stash. Pretending to be moved by their pleas, Johnny goes to Londonaccompanied, despite his protests, by Marc's wife, the confident Simoneto meet the kidnappers' demands. At first, Simone is appalled by the cold-blooded gangster Johnny Frank. But when the two grow unexpectedly close, Johnny feels obligated to break the bad news to Simone: he can't find Marc. Johnny and Simone put the pieces together and set out together for some dual payback in this endlessly entertaining tale from London's mean streets.