In suburban Georgetown, a killers Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home.

In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess.

To the Washington establishment its political dynamite.

Suddenly Darby is witness to a murdera murder intended for her.

Going underground, she finds that there is only one personan ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergateshe can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle.

Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White Houses inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered.

For someone has read Darbys briefsomeone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.From the Paperback edition.