A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck’s client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.“This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon, and it’s just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate.”—Booklist

Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to end it. But that won’t stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Grammy-winning pop star Imani Nichols, is the most underpaid superstar while her now ex-husband, Shaky Nichols, has made himself rich off her royalties.Preferring to see thieves profit from her music rather than her ex, Imani encourages her millions of fans on social media to “go pirate” and download her music illegally—a hardball tactic that leads her to Jack.The case takes a deadly turn when salacious allegations of infidelity send Imani and Shaky down a path of mutual assured destruction, each implicating the other in the unsolved murder of Imani’s extramarital lover twelve years ago. Tyler McCormick died of asphyxiation, and his body was found in Biscayne Bay, chained to a piling with the words “goodbye girl” impressed on his chest. Both Imani and Shaky are indicted for murder, leading to a sensational trial that exposes shocking secrets.Yet, as Jack discovers, uncovering the truth about the killing and the cryptic “goodbye girl” won’t just exonerate or convict his client, her ex, and their music empire. It may shape the future of the entire recording industry.