Who and why needed to kill Valerie Simpson—the former star of tennis who recently decided to return to the sport?
Why did the killer shoot Valerie right during the Open Championship, in the presence of several thousand spectators?
Famous sports agent and talented amateur detective Myron Bolitar begins his own investigation—and soon learns: the roots of the crime lie far in the past, when two teenagers killed her boyfriend Alexander Cross in front of Valerie’s eyes—the son of a senator.
But why did they decide to get rid of her only now, years later?