Summary

In Chapter 1, Lacy Stoltz and Hugo Hatch, a team from the Board on Judicial Conduct, travel together to St. Augustine, Florida from their office in Tallahassee. They had been working together at the board for nearly nine years. They were supposed to meet with a man who had given Lacy only a code name, Randy. Even though there had been no formal complaint filed yet, their boss, Michael Geismar had told them to check out what the man had to say.

At the restaurant where they had been instructed to meet Randy, the two waited two hours before heading back to the car. Inside the car Lacy got a phone call from the man who had been spooked because he did not expect Hugo to be with her. He asked to meet Lacy alone at the Municipal Marina. Once they met, the man...