When Roddy Littlechild refused a favour to MI5, his world collapses He is accused of murder and the evidence against him is overwhelming Only his borhter-in-law Chris Lomax, an expert tracker just retired from the SAS, believes in Littlechild's innocence Lomax, together with Sam Browne (a defence lawyer as renowned for her fiery temperament as for her good looks) takes on the police, government and legal system in a harrowing attempt to prove his friend's innocence