Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William Shoe Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. Theres been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill – an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene. The victim, Frankie Ray, is a former prizefighter. His accused killer? Club owner and mobster George Miller, who claims he pulled the trigger in self-defense. Soon the whole towns talking, and Shoes first homicide is fast becoming the Trial of the Century. The more Shoe digs, the more hes convinced nothing is as it seems.
