His latest hard-hitting and utterly compelling thriller featuring husband-wife lawyers Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi. He is now in private practice and she has started a detective agency specialising in helping abused women. Butch's first case is to represent the New York Chief Medical Examiner who has just been fired for supposed incompetence. As Karp methodically demolishes his opponents' case in court, he begins to suspect a massive cover-up ...and the clues lie in Mariene's contact with a horribly battered girl, and with a string of mysterious deaths of men held in police custody. Together they find themselves battling the District Attorney's office -- and the all-out ruthlessness of those who would use the public trust for their own dark and corrupt purposes.