Twenty years ago, Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first big case - the slaying of a pretty doctor - by extracting a confession from seventeen-year-old Julian Vega. Today, Julian Vega, no longer so young, is out of prison on a legal technicality. After another doctor is killed in eerily similar circumstances, Loughlin tracks down Julian. But the results of a DNA test blow up in the cop's face. The blood under the latest victim's fingernails doesn't belong to Julian Vega - it belongs to the woman murdered twenty years before.
Now two men from opposite sides of the law circle each other, both with something to prove. And in a murky endgame where right bleeds into wrong and secrets hide in dark places, they seek a devastating truth that may destroy them both...

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