In September of 1972, twenty-five-year-old auto mechanic Bob Lowe became a witness to a Mob murder. The hit man was Harry Aleman, Chicago's prince of organised crime. Lowe appeared to be the man who could finally put Aleman away. But in the web of political corruption, payoffs, and Mob power, nothing is that simple.
Being forced into witness protection was just the beginning of his nightmare. For the next twenty years Lowe's and Aleman's lives would be inexorably linked and forever transformed by one of the most shocking - and historic - miscarriages of justice in the annals of crime.