On a raw winter night in Northern Ireland, a misplaced bullet from the rifle of a British Army sniper sets off a series of events that culminate a decade later on a sun-filled summer day at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. In those intervening years, a sister and brother are torn apart from the violence gently known as "the Troubles." Feisty Annie McGuire seeks retribution. Her brother, Aidan, schemes for more than an eye for an eye. Aidan trains the great race horse, Irish Eagle. A brilliant success on the European circuit, the three-year-old cold is pointed to the Travers Stakes at Saratoga. But this will be no ordinary stakes race. From the vestry of a hillside church in an Irish village, a stately gentlemen's club in London, and the "social clubs" of Boston's Irish and Italian gangsters, deception, blackmail and fatal decisions are plotted and put in place. Then, late on a Saturday afternoon in August, as the horses thunder down the homestretch at fabled Saratoga, it becomes clear that relying on inside information can be a hazardous game.

Did a casual comment from a B-girl working at a seedy bar in Boston's "Combat Zone" inspire the most notorious art theft in the nation's history?  A decade after the looting, the penchant of a superior court judge for old masterpieces brings the infamous museum heist and a billion dollar family court brawl onto the same page. A pair of the city's most prominent lawyers takes on the task of defending Cosmos Theopoulis, an acerbic tycoon accused of fleecing his niece and nephew out of their interest in the family business empire.  As the court proceedings take an undecided turn against their unforgiving client, defense council turn to insidious means in a desperate attempt to avoid a catastrophic judgement. They scheme to besmirch and derail the trial judge through the manipulation of her law clerk. Unknowingly, the clerk provides information that could involve Her Honor in the disappearance of the priceless museum paintings.  The story unfolds in both posh and hardscrabble neighborhoods of Boston and its suburbs as its players succumb to greed, power, and love without concern for those left in their backwash.

Can a decorated U.S. marine who survived three tours of duty in Vietnam, including a stay at the Hanoi Hilton, withstand the hardball politics of Washington, DC? Walter “Waldo” LeGrande, an African American born and raised in the Jim Crow South, is lured from the Corps with a job offer from a grateful beneficiary of his bravery. After donning his civvies in Boston and establishing his family in that historic city, the popular veteran is elected to the United States Congress. While attending a conference in Switzerland, the new congressman is tempted off the wagon and from his vow of marital fidelity by an alluring French woman. Guilt-ridden, he returns to the nation’s capital to discover that evidence of congressional campaign contributions being laundered through a Bermuda-based investment house has been thrust into his care. If Waldo exposes the crimes of his new colleagues, he is threatened with the revelation of his conduct while in Switzerland, thereby risking the love of his wife to whom he is devoted. If the former Marine remains silent, he will be ignoring the inspiring words that have guided him through his adult years- Duty, Honor, Country.