Claudia Fleischman is beautiful, rich, intelligent and has just been
charged with the murder of her husband. Hardy, hired to look into the
background of the case, is soon up to his neck in trouble. When his car
is blown up and then a friend is killed, Cliff finds himself with a
personal stake in the action. His investigations introduce him to the
shadowy world of corporate high flyers at Sydney's exclusive Washington
Club and bring him into contact with loose cannon Haitch Henderson and
his soft but unpleasant pimp of a son, Noel. In one of his grittiest
cases ever, Hardy has to take drastic action before the pieces fall into
place and a very rough justice is seen to be done.