约翰·法罗执导的一部涉案片,讲述了一个出版大享凭借过人的胆识和智慧为自己洗刷谋杀罪名的故事。影片包容了言情、悬疑诸多元素,情节跌宕起伏,扣人心弦。 出版大亨乔纳森拥有世界上最精确、最独特的私人大钟,这个钟造价高过60万美元,可以知道世界任何一个地方的时间。乔治就在这个出版机构任职。多年来,他忙于工作,连和妻子去度蜜月的时间都被突而其来的新闻采访所占去,内心深处觉得非常亏欠妻子。就在他准备休假陪妻子度蜜月时,他卷入了一起谋杀案,他所带领的团队负责向读者披露案件侦破过程,一个又一个的疑点对他相当不利,尽管他是无辜的,在紧张的调查过程中,他利用自己过人的胆识和智慧,为自己洗脱了罪名。When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man whose identity he doesn't know but who just happens to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" - George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janoth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janoth's guilt.