Horace Rumpole, with seven new cases, finds himself up before the disciplinary Bar Council. Who will be against Rumpole, and will he live to fight another day?
The first message sent to Tom Thorne's phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives.