Author(s): Sydney Bauer

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When lawyer David Cavanaugh takes a call from an old friend in New Jersey, he immediately offers to help. Chris Kincaid is now a US Senator and his dilemma concerns the disappearance of another member of their childhood gang - Marilyn Maloney - whom the now-married Senator used to date. Then a blonde woman's body is hauled out of the Passaic River in David's home town of Newark. The situation soon spirals out of control as Chris involves David in a lie to the police. Marilyn is dead, Chris is confirmed as her lover and the popular senator - arrested for her murder - engages David as his attorney. Now David finds himself drowning in a sea of uncertainty - practising in a state he has never practised in before, defending one old friend accused of murdering another, and coming home, where his older brother Sean has a long-held grudge to settle. Worse still, David soon discovers that proving Chris innocent is linked directly to another mistake - made by someone very close to him, many years before.