Who and why needed to kill Valerie Simpson, a former tennis star who recently decided to return to the sport? Why did the killer shoot Valerie right during the Open Championship in the presence of several thousand spectators? Well-known sports agent and talented amateur detective Myron Bolitar begins his own investigation - and soon finds out: the roots of the crime lie in the distant past, when two teenagers, in front of Valerie’s eyes, killed her fiancé Alexander Cross, the son of a senator. But why did they decide to get rid of her only now, years later?