CHAOS ERUPTS at the US Supreme Court when an assassin guns down six justices as they are hearing a case Solicitor General Jefferson McKenna the governments top lawyer in the Supreme Court is appointed to the multiagency commission investigating the murders As Congress draws battle lines over who will replace the slain justices the commission follows clue after clue each one pointing to an unlikely suspect McKenna himself In a desperate bid to prove his innocence McKenna on the run with his deputy Kate Porter must track down a disgraced law clerk with ties to hidden Saudi assets But their search leads to unexpected alliances unearthing dark secrets and corruption at the highest levels and the people with clues to the riddle keep turning up dead From the marble halls of the high court to the inner corridors of the West Wing from the DC housing projects to the desolate back roads of a New York Indian reservation McKenna and Porter are on a collision course with a shadowy enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried