There are some cases you have to take.

Adam Hill is a rookie lawyer at a top Chicago firm. The world is at his feet.

So why does he volunteer to represent a KKK terrorist under threat of execution?

And why is the defendant happy to put his life in a novice's hands?

The answer lies twenty years in the past, but there are darker, more shocking secrets to be uncovered...
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