 After a convicted murderer is executed, LOU MASON, a brilliant, but down-on-his-luck Kansas City defense attorney is hired SIMULTANEOUSLY by both the condemned man s mother and the victims  son to prove that a rich and powerful Kansas City philanthropist, WHITNEY KING was the actual murderer. Warned by those close to him to leave the case alone, Mason discovers that not only was King the real killer but that he has evolved into a brilliant murderer that only MASON can stop.