To the outside world, it looks like Dismas Hardy is
finally on top. A managing partner at his thriving, newly
reorganized law firm, heís a rainmaker and fix-it guy for
clients leery of taking their chances in a courtroom. But
what the world sees is a mirage. For beneath the surface
bravado and the lucrative deal-making, Hardy has lost his
faith in the law.
Now Hardyís young associate Amy Wu, suddenly rootless and
grieving over the recent death of her father, brings the
firm a high-profile and challenging case: Andrew Bartlett,
the seventeen-year-old son of a prominent San Francisco
family, has been arrested for the double slaying of his
girlfriend and his English teacher. The D.A. wants to try
him as an adult, but Wu cuts a deal to keep him in
juvenile court -- a deal that sheís forced to break.
Overwhelmed by the mounting evidence against their client,
and hoping to salvage his firmís reputation in the face of
the D.A.ís righteous wrath, Hardy sits second chair with
Wu in Bartlettís defense.
As the Bartlett case moves swiftly to trial, Hardy is
unable to turn to his old friend Abe Glitsky for help.
Newly promoted to Deputy Chief of the Investigations
Bureau, Glitsky has problems of his own when San Francisco
is seized by a wave of violence. With fear and anxiety
building, all eyes in the panicked city fix on an
embattled Glitsky, who must somehow stop the criminal
upsurge while being second-guessed and hounded by a
hostile media.
The city around them on the verge of panic, Hardyís search
for the truth takes him and Amy Wu down a path that
becomes more perilous with each step. With very little
belief in his young clientís innocence, and even less in
the legal system, Hardy has to first conquer his own
demons if he is to clear his client . . . and save
himself.
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