John Cotton is more than an ace reporter – he’s a fly on the wall. He sees it all, hears it all, and stays out of sight. But when he sees his best friend’s corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the Capitol’s central rotunda, he knows the game has changed. The shocking pages of the dead reporter’s secret notebook tell of a scandal involving a certain senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and murder. And soon John Cotton hears the deadly footsteps of powerful people with something to hide.