In suburban Georgetown a killer’s Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home…
In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death…
The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been
assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief…
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the
Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a
murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one
person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to
help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana
and the White House’s inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For
someone has read Darby’s brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the
evidence of an unthinkable crime.