Millions of dollars are at stake in a case of great snuff company in Biloxi, and the jury is full of people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but soon realize that in turn is controlled by a young woman, even more mysterious. Lives careen off course as it bends at all in the case of their own.
A US state senator is dead, and a young boy is told the name of the killer - a mafia hit-man, Danny "The Blade" Muldano - by Muldano's lawyer. After the lawyer's suicide, Muldano and the boy are the only people who know the killer's identity. By the author of "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief".