They are at the centre of a multimillion - dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harrased by high - priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the mot explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent -setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him...