Barrister William Travers is asked by an old university mate Martin Newell to represent him on a charge of murdering his mistress and secretary. He claims to be innocent but that is far from Travers' main concern. He and his wife Jane left London many years before due to a murder case. At that ti...

Will Travers meets his old friend Martin Newell in jail but he hasn't yet decided to represent him. Newell freely admits to having an affair with the victim, Lucy Wilson, a secretary at his firm. He flatly denies that he had anything to do with her death. He claims he had gone out to get her some...

Will focuses on the missing computer from Martin Newell's hotel room. The hotel maid recalls seeing a laptop computer in the room and another hotel guest remembers seeing Martin in the elevator. The dead woman had made several calls from her phone the day she died and there is a reference to Agad...

While he's out for dinner with his daughter, someone steals Will's papers on the case. The dead woman, Lucy Wilson, had a criminal record from when she falsely accused a rich boy at school of rape and then tried to blackmail him. They trace the number she called to a journalist, Jameel Khan, who ...

The trial begins and Will puts on an effective defense. He's learned that Lucy was planted in the oil company's offices to gather information on the disposal of toxic waste. He also learns the meaning of Agadir. Martin Newell presents himself quite well at the trial. DI Mark Wenborn desperately w...