In this tale of vengeance, the wife of a federal appeals court judge is murdered. The FBI conducts a cursory investigation, and then mysteriously closes its file. Flavored with American-Italian family relationships, the characters move through a web of deceit and determination to unravel a dark conspiracy centered around an occult society and a ruse that reaches into the Oval Office, The author merges his knowledge of the law's complexity and majesty with the murkiness of power politics to construct a whodunit set in the triangle of Western Pennsylvania, idyllic Sicily, and labyrinthine Washington.