Adam Hall is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm.He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for.His prospective client doesn`t want Adam or his law firm.He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past.He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967.Why would he want to take on Adam,a complete novice,to defend him?And why would Adam want his case so desperately?The answer lies in the past,in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time.