Martha defends a young thug who smashed up a corner shop and attacked its owner whom he claims insulted his girlfriend. Reader has sex in a toilet with George before prosecuting three Oxford students, members of an elite drinking club, charged with trashing a pub and assaulting a young waitress as part of an initiation rite. However, he is out of his depth against the boys' three smug barristers and a parochial judge, and he needs advice from an old colleague and Martha, aware that hers is a hopeless case, to get his desired result.
—don @ minifie-1