Replacement Parts - Synopsis

Three young children met and became the closest of friends. They grow up together and through out their school years become inseparable. They experience and learn about life together.

It is in college where they finally began to go their own ways. Deborah Warren becomes a doctor, Timothy Lawrence a lawyer and Nicolas Vaughn, a businessman who manufacturers and sells a revolutionary valve devise that he invented while a child.

Then they drift apart. Nicolas becomes dissatisfied with his life and retires to join the police department. Timothy is the cities most successful lawyer and Deborah is the world’s foremost transplant surgeon.

Through contacts with her husband’s connections with the President, Deborah finds that rich Japanese are willing to pay a fortune for transplants that they cannot obtain in their country.

Then a young nurse is murdered for her kidneys. Her father, Bartholomew Higgins, a West Texas rancher arrives in New York City to claim the body. After learning how she died, he becomes enraged and sets about to learn who is responsible. Higgins moves through New York’s most dangerous areas and leaves a trail of bodies. Nicolas Vaughn is determined to solve the case but is distracted by becoming reacquainted with Deborah and Timothy.

Nicolas learns that Bartholomew Higgins was part of a secret assassination team that roamed Vietnam. His training is serving him well in the jungle that is New York City but Nicolas can’t prove he is the vigilante. Higgins draws closer and closer to finding the murderer of his daughter and Nicholas is more and more distracted by Deborah.