When down on his luck lawyer Jonas Calver is hired to defend an ex-soldier on a murder charge, things seem to be looking up for the maverick attorney. But he soon discovers he’s bagged a client who is not quite what he seems, and a case he can’t win.    

But with the clock ticking down on a slam dunk guilty verdict Calver’s not finished yet; when he gets wind of a witness who may hold vital evidence – an ex-army buddy from the defendant’s old bomb disposal unit, allegedly linked to the unsolved killing of an Afghan family – the...