Charles Bettencourt, a CIA consultant who developed state of the art eavesdropping spyware placed in high level military offices in Iran and Syria, barely survives an attempted assassination. He is permanently disabled. He seeks retribution against the terrorists he believes orchestrated the hit and hires Turner Largeant. Turner knows the numerous legal pitfalls of such an undertaking but reluctantly takes the case. He knows also if he prevails, his client will reap an enormous monetary award.Turner and his first-year associate, Bridget, then embark upon a perilous and sometimes deadly course pitting them against the highest levels of government including a determined secretly composed governmental group of specially recruited individuals whose sole purpose is to discourage Charles Bettencourt from ever bringing his lawsuit. Using skill, guile and plain hard work, Bridget and Turner develop a story which would easily find them on tomorrow's breaking news.