The body of a teenage girl is found brutally stabbed in a Dublin park. It is every parent's nightmare. But for Dublin's police and politicians the nightmare is just beginning. For the dead girl is the daughter of a high-profile American heart surgeon, in Dublin to head the Mercy Hospital's new Heart Foundation. America is baying for justice.Superintendent Jim Clarke heads the investigation. His team picks up the trail of a suspect. But do they have the right man? Frank Clancy, consultant haematologist to the Mercy hospital, is concerned about the deaths of two patients. When he decides to take a closer look he places his own life in terrible danger...