Bob Ellinger is a sometimes successful lawyer whose personal life is a mess. He drinks too much and cares too little. Life and people just aren't important to him so he never anticipated getting dragged into the heart of a political scandal.

But that's exactly what happens when Chuck Wilson-the governor's confidant and his sister's boss-is found dead, after plummeting from the fourth floor of the capitol building. Is it suicide? Or murder?

As Ellinger awkwardly attempts to comfort his sister, he begins to realize how complex this mysterious death really is and sees the...