Kincaidβs legal success has earned him a dubious reward: a journey through the looking glass into the Beltway. Here, in the heart of the nationβs capital, a powerful U.S. senator has been caught first in a sordid sex scandal, then in a case of murder.
Senate aide Veronica Cooper was found in a secret Senate office beneath the Capitol building, on Senator Todd Glancyβs favorite couch, blood pouring from the knife wound in her throat. The young womanβs death comes on the heels of the release of a sordid videotape depicting her and Senator Glancy in compromising positions.
With the senatorβs reputation in tatters, the evidence against himβas a sexual predator and possibly a killerβ mounts. By the time a nationally televised murder trial begins, Kincaid and his team know theyβre facing the challenge of a lifetime. According to public opinion, and even in Kincaidβs most private thoughts, Glancy is one more politician who cannot admit his own culpability.
But while a dramatic trial unfolds in the courtroomβloaded with pitfalls, traps, and an astounding betrayalβanother trial is taking place on the mean streets of D.C., as Kincaidβs investigator pursues a young woman who was a friend of Veronica Cooperβs, plunging Kincaid into a bizarre world of Goths, sadomasochists, and a community of self-proclaimed vampires. Somewhere in this violent underworld lies the secret behind Veronica Cooperβs demise . . . and the crux of Senator Glancyβs innocence or guilt.
In a case that pits Kincaid and his freewheeling partner Christina McCall against the brutal machinery of Washington politics, the answers they seek are hidden in a murderous maze of lies and hidden motives.
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