Dan Becket is a brilliant barrister haunted by the shadows of the past: by a wife whose death he blames upon himself, and by a father he never knew who vanished to America from the ruins of the Holocaust.
Simon Montford is the darling of the establishment, a millionaire industrialist and former cabinet minister whom even the might of the English legal system seems powerless to touch.
Their fates are joined in the most sensational trial in fifty years - the first war crimes prosecution since Nuremberg. Simon Montford is on trial for murder. Dan Becket does all he can to avoid prosecuting the case, but a threat to his daughter's life changes everything. The race is on: can Dan link a death camp atrocity with the chemical weapons underworld of today . . . before the jury returns?
