Until Jude is fifteen, life with his drug dealer father consists of squalid apartments, frequent moves, and no forwarding address. Then his father is killed, brutally gunned down at their kitchen table, and Jude is a witness. But to save his own life, he can't tell the police what he knows - he's trapped and under suspicion himself. And then another secret is revealed: Jude's father wasn't who he said he was...