In suburban Georgetown, a killer&#8217;s 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.<br><br>To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it&#8217;s political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder&#8211;a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one person&#8211;an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate&#8211;she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House&#8217;s inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby&#8217;s brief&#8211;someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.