Lawyer Paul Madriani faces a web of international conspiracy, deception and murder when he takes on the defense of the charming Costa Rican Katia Solaz, accused of murdering her supposed admirer, the elderly Emerson Pike, for whom the girl was just cheese in a mousetrap. he needed her family connections... The Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War, drug cartels, new American wiretapping technologies, the CIA and terrorist operations in the Middle East - these multiple threads lead Madriani into an ominous reality.