Two leading Scottish establishment figures,High Court Judge Robert McKinlay and financier James Offard, are assassinated on the same night making DCI Grant McKirdy of Police Scotland think there are professional contract killers operating in the Edinburgh area. The case widens with the murder of a gangland leader in his cell at Saughton Prison who had informed Lord McKinlay that leading figures in the Scottish legal systemm were involved in a global money laundering scheme controlled by the mafia. It soon becomes apparent to McKirdy that thereis a common denominator rto all thes crimes - football!