Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Trippings sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didnt. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she had her work cut out to convince the jury, but before Paige could complete her testimony on the stand she is found dead - strangled in her own apartment building, just hours after shed confessed to Alex that she had had a relationship with another ex-CIA operative. While the accusation of rape against Tripping is dropped, he has other charges to face, not least abusing his own child. As Trippings defence team go into overdrive to keep their client out of jail, Alex, Chapman and Mercer set out to discover who so conveniently killed the woman who could have put him behind bars. As they peel back the layers of Paiges life, they discover a decades-old vipers nest of robbery and double-dealing and discover that truth of the adage of money being at the root of all evil - however old and respectable it might be.