In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisperΒ on the front floor of a posh home...
In a seedyΒ D.C. porno house a patron is swiftlyΒ garroted to death...
The next day America learnsΒ that two of its Supreme Court justices have beenΒ assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young lawΒ student prepares a legal brief...
To Darby Shaw it wasΒ no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliantΒ guess. To the Washington establishment it wasΒ political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to aΒ murder -- a murder intended for her. GoingΒ underground, she finds there is only one person she canΒ Β trust -- an ambitious reporter after a news breakΒ hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together theΒ deadly puzzle.
Somewhere between the bayous ofΒ Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, aΒ violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone hasΒ read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop atΒ nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkableΒ crime.
© 2003-2026