Who would want to kill Ann Holm, a corporate lawyer who, after investigating massive corruption in her company, struggles with a burnout? And why? The corporate world in which power and money corrupts holds many reasons. In a race with a merciless killer, Ann calls a favour from childhood friend Sam Stoev, now a retired intelligence officer. All she wanted was to escape the trap which had been laid for her, but unveiling a terrible truth that goes far beyond the corruption and threatens everything she believes in, might do just the opposite.

This legal political thriller is the first in a series that take Ann Holm and Sam Stoev's pursuit of secrets into a web of corruption and geopolitical agendas that affect just about everyone.