Kincaidโs legal success has earned him a dubious reward: a journey through the looking glass into the Beltway. Here, in the heart of the nationโs 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 Glancyโs favorite couch, blood pouring from the knife wound in her throat. The young womanโs death comes on the heels of the release of a sordid videotape depicting her and Senator Glancy in compromising positions.
With the senatorโs reputation in tatters, the evidence against himโas a sexual predator and possibly a killerโ mounts. By the time a nationally televised murder trial begins, Kincaid and his team know theyโre facing the challenge of a lifetime. According to public opinion, and even in Kincaidโs most private thoughts, Glancy is one more politician who cannot admit his own culpability.
But while a dramatic trial unfolds in the courtroomโloaded with pitfalls, traps, and an astounding betrayalโanother trial is taking place on the mean streets of D.C., as Kincaidโs investigator pursues a young woman who was a friend of Veronica Cooperโs, 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 Cooperโs demise . . . and the crux of Senator Glancyโs 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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