The new case of Myron Bolitar - a sports agent and famous amateur detective! A vacation on a tropical island is unexpectedly interrupted - Bolitar is given VERY BAD news... His client, baseball player Clu Heid, is murdered, and Esperanza Diaz, who has been working for many years, is suspected of murder at the Bolitara agency. What happened? Why does all the evidence point to Esperanza? And, what’s most strange, why does she stubbornly refuse to talk to Bolitar, and her lawyer advises him not to interfere in this matter? To prove Esperanza’s innocence, Bolitar begins his own investigation and comes to an unexpected conclusion: the causes of the tragedy that ended Clu’s life should be sought in distant past, when a baseball player made a tragic and ridiculous mistake...