For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the
beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for
refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the
attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once
prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a
distrustful alliance between his underground "family of choice," Wolfe's
private network, and a rogue NYPD detective who has his own stake in the
outcome. Burke knows that Wolfe's alleged "victim," although convicted
only once, is actually a serial rapist. The deeper he presses, the more
gaping holes he finds in the prosecution's case, but shadowy law
enforcement agencies seem determined to protect Wychek at all costs, no
matter who gets sacrificed. Burke ups the ante by re-opening all the old
"cold case" rape investigations, calls in a lot of markers from both
sides of the law, and finally shows all the players why "down here" is
no place for tourists.