Someone poisons three Philadelphia trial lawyers, in their homes, within a few days. All the victims share a recent adversarial court connection with a physician, acknowledged as an expert in domestic poisons. When DNA and fingerprint evidence place the doctor at the scene of the first crime, it takes the media only a few weeks to make the people's case against Josh Kaiser, M.D., the country's number-one news story. The defendant has only the truth, and the pledge of help from three friends from his youth, in the nightmarish battle to save his life.