Joe Hearn was a good cop, one of the best, and on his way to the top of the New York Police Department. But Hearn was also a husband lusting to track down the rapist who had unspeakably savaged his wife, Mary. And he was a man dangerously drawn to Judith Adler, a beautiful, brilliant District Attorney who offered him what Mary could not. Joe Hearn was walking on the knife's edge between the law and the lawless, between conscience and passion -- toward a showdown where his badge and gun could not shield him...