Geoff Wainwright's wife and daughter are brutally murdered. The police have no motive and no leads. The FBI is brought in with the same results. A former Army Ranger and highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Geoff makes the decision to hunt down the people responsible and administer his own kind of justice, which gives him A Need To Kill. His investigation takes him to Europe where it collides with an old CIA Cold War operation.. Meanwhile the FBI suspects Geoff of the murder of his wife and child and tracks him to Europe. As he hunt's for his wife's killer, he becomes the hunted, by the FBI and the CIA, as well as the people responsible for the death of his family.
Dallas attorney Stan Turner hates criminal law but has a propensity for attracting murder cases anyway. So, it's no big surprise when a simple attorney-ad-litem appointment in family court evolves into a complex murder trial.