At the age of five,Steve Conroy saw his seven-year-old brother kidnapped from the verybedroom they shared. His brother was never found. And the guilt of hissilence that night has all but destroyed Steve’s life.Now thirty yearsold with a failing law practice, Steve agrees to represent convictedcriminal Johnny LaSalle, an arrangement sweetened by a lucrativeretainer. It’s not long until he discovers that this con man might justbe his missing brother.Desperate for his final shot at redemption, Stevewill do anything to find the truth. But Johnny knows far more than he’stelling, and the secrets he keeps have deadly consequences. Now Stevemust depend on an inexperienced law student whose faith seems to be hislast chance at redemption from a corrupt world where one wrong movecould be his last.