Richard Sullivan was at the top of his profession, a rainmaker in a powerful Kansas City law firm—until his body washed up on the shores of a Missouri lake. Now the questions about his death, and his life, are reverberating through a firm that has more secrets than it knew.

For trial attorney Lou Mason, investigating the case means running through a maze of high-level corruption, sexual misconduct, organized crime and cold-blooded murder. When another partner in the firm turns up dead—his neck neatly snapped—everyone believes it was Sullivan's killer...except Lou.

As he's led closer to the truth, Lou will discover a connection between the two murders than runs deeper than he could have ever imagined. With a media firestorm surrounding him, he's about to get the ultimate legal lesson—that the most explosive crimes aren't against the law.