Tom 'Babe' Levy is a runner in every sense- racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence - and endlessly away from the spectre of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder - and force him into a race for his life? and for the answer to the fateful question, 'Is it safe?'