When a fraternity boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee for piracy on the high seas Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects he?s being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt.
Meanwhile his wife Melissa the professor-half of the couple gets caught in the middle of a conflict between two colleagues that soon escalates into burglary theft jury-tampering forgery of a papal document from World War II and murder.
Caught between an investigative reporter who?s still having flashbacks to 1968 a professor whose acute political correctness masks ruthless academic ambition an engineer whose father?s death looks suspicious and a brace of cunning lawyers out for blood Rep and Melissa have to combine their talents to stay off the casualty list while they figure out what?s really going on.