The story is a legal thriller about Mack Malloy, a middle-aged lawyer basically waiting to retire, who is assigned by his firm to track down another attorney who has embezzled millions from the firm and disappeared. Many of the minor characters in Pleading Guilty also appear in Scott Turow's other novels. This was a pilot for a television show based on Pleading Guilty was shot in 2010 but not picked up by the FOX network. Based on Turow's 1993 book.