Matthew Hope has been shot twice and he's lying unconscious in intensive care As the women in his life gather at his bedside, his colleagues and the police frantically track his movements in the week before he stepped out of the Centaur Bar and Grill at Calusa's black ghetto Part of the story is concealed in the Steadman and Roger Circus, whilst the other parts are held in the black community Was Matthew Hope on the verge of unmasking a murderer who had got away with it, or something even more sensational?