This is the second book about the reporter Alec MacEwan. Alec is a disenfranchised reporter in Toronto who accepted an offer to work with a group of computer geeks he refers to as The Consortium. they produce an on-line news magazine that has taken Toronto by storm and resurrected Alec's career. In this book, The Lede, Alec is outraged when a friend is wrongfully accused, remanded in custody and meets a gruesome death. With the help of the Consortium, Alec takes on the entire correctional system. But the challenge may prove too much for him. More deaths and complications in his personal life may be the end of Alexander MacEwan.