Publisher's Synopsis
James Patterson takes on John Grisham in a blockbusting legal thriller When Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows something is wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead. The police are saying he drowned in stormy seas, but Jack knows that Peter, a strong swimmer, would never have risked such conditions. Suicide makes no sense. Someone wanted his brother dead. To uncover the truth, Jack confronts a wall of silence; a barricade of lawyers, police, and shadowy "professionals" protecting the privileges of the multi-billionaire summer residents. When he finds that his brother had nearly $200,000 in the bank, he realises Peter wasn't just parking cars for a living.
