Set in Canterbury, Massachusetts, Ambrose Merrion and Dan Hilliard are both long-serving members of the FBI as well as life-long friends. Through his sharp, well-observed dialogue, Higgins details how they met, their subsequent lives and careers and the problem now facing them: a Grand Jury is going to indict Dan for fraud and wants Ambrose to dish the dirt on his buddy. Dan, the brighter of the two, is more successful and stands accused of getting Merrion a position he didn't deserve. He doesn't understand who has accused him , or why, but forms a list of suspects in which his ex-wife is a strong contender...