Grand Jury — Philip Friedman

The New York police seize more than a million dollars tainted with heroin powder, implicating two elderly and distinguished Chinatown residents. Their case is rushed before the grand jury.

Susan Linwood and David Clark are strangers before being asked to serve in the name of justice. Yet as prosecuter Dan Mahoney presents the drug-conspiracy case, they soon become completely absorbed with the proceedings - and increasingly with each other.

As Mahoney struggles with facts that refuse to fit the crimes his superiors have told him to pursue, Linwood and Clark are launched onto a treacherous path to Hong Kong and China, to the edge of disaster - uncovering an ultimate truth with chilling, worldwide implications.