An eleven year old child, Mark Sway, has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where the body is, at whatever cost to him and his family. The killer wants him to be silenced, forever. Only one woman lawyer can save him from these twin threats. Together with Mark she must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.