LA Law meets The Godfather in the most talked about thriller of the year. A Harvard Law graduate joins a wealthy tax firm, only to find out it is owned by the most powerful Mob family in Chicago, and that they're laundering vast sums of money through dummy corporations around the world. And the FBI ...

LA Law meets The Godfather in the most talked about thriller of the year. A Harvard Law graduate joins a wealthy tax firm, only to find out it is owned by the most powerful Mob family in Chicago, and that they're laundering vast sums of money through dummy corporations around the world. And the FBI is pressuring him to become their informant . . . but perhaps there is one way out.

At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadhis choice of the best in America. He made a deadlymistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withBendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought heand his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolloans, arranged a mortgage and hired him adecorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisbrother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a Tennesseejail -- already knew. You never get nothing fornothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch'sfirm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between arock and a hard place, with no choice -- if hewants to live."