The master of the legal thriller returns with one of his twistiest, most compelling crime novels yet. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes. Which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now the convicted athlete - with a new lawyer - is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered.