Richard Harmon is in custody. The federal investigation is open. The weight has been transferred ? but it hasn't been put down.

Three weeks after the arrest, a carefully constructed false lead arrives at the paper, designed to discredit everything Eli Navarro and journalist Maya Chen have built. Someone inside the network that buried the mill case is still operating. And as Eli begins to suspect that the person who has guided this investigation from the outside may also be running it from within, the story shifts into territory where truth, justice, and method are no longer easy to separate.

The reckoning is live. The city is still listening. And the hardest question isn't who did it ? it's whether the answer can survive being told.

Book 2 of 2 in The Last Broadcast series. Continues directly from Night Waves. Best read in sequence.