The top brass just wants the case closed quickly. Only Kovac and Liska want to find out something no one else seems interested in -- the truth. And it doesn't take them long to discover that the dead cop had plenty of secrets, personal and professional, secrets that involve the case of another slain cop. And perhaps stretch back twenty years to the crippling of one of Kovac's best friends and a legend on the force.

Their investigation soon turns into an uphill battle. For there's no love lost between regular cops like them and the Department of Internal Affairs, led by a cool, beautiful lieutenant with a hidden past of her own. Other obstacles stand in the way the victim's best friend engaged to a powerful attorney, a publicity-hungry cop with a TV crime show going national, and the victim's father lost in a haze of alcohol and grief.

The deeper Kovac and Liska venture into this deadly maze of secrets and lies, the closer they'll come to the most shocking revelation of all and to a hidden killer determined that the truth die once and for all with them.