Judge Raleigh Westlake must make the most important decision of his life--a decision that may send an innocent teenager to the execution chamber. In this final installment of Michael Winstead's ULTIMATE trilogy, the cabal that has secretly tried and executed six criminals begins to unravel under the pressure of a blackmailer who threatens to unmask them. The real terrorist, hiding in plain sight, eludes the FBI and frames a dead man for his crimes. And while the authorities are looking for the terrorist in the wrong place, the KGB is planning a vicious biological strike against the United States. An epic conflict between good and evil tests the Judge's very being and the meaning of truth.