Part 1. Entry level. A game without rules ; The closed world ; Wearing a wire ; The fixers ; Money trails ; The brass key ; Disclosures -- Part 2. One of the boys. The next level ; The black bag ; Listening in ; Suspicions ; Switching sides ; Web of corruption ; Branching out ; Our crime academy ; All hell breaks loose -- Part 3. The reckoning. The largest bribe ; The wall collapses ; Justice on trial ; On the stand ; Rebound ; Final justice ; Full circle -- Epilogue.

Terrence Hake recounts his involvement in the events of Operation Greylord, the FBI's longest and most successful undercover operation that led to charges against over one hundred of Chicago's judges, lawyers, and court personnel.

In the 1980s Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, worked undercover for nearly four years. He accepted bribes, made payoffs, wore a wire in bars and to racetracks, bugged a judge's chambers, and befriended people he knew he would betray. Operation Greylord resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. This is the story from a perspective that only a true insider can bring.