Major Jake Cantrell, discharged from the army, thought that everything in his life was left behind - there in Afghanistan. In the war he lost friends, service and an honest name. All that was left was a small house on the lake, a dog and a failing job in the security service at St. Andrews College. But everything changed dramatically when the body of a college graduate with a noose around his neck was found on a suspension bridge over the gorge. The sheriff said it was a suicide. But the former major knows well the difference between a hanged man and a hanged man...