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BLACKLIST by Sara Paretsky - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Sara Paretsky.
Every new Sara Paretsky novel is an event, the chance to reencounter
her beloved heroine, V. I. Warshawski - "a private eye with the
sharpest tongue and hardest head in Chicago" (The New York Times Book
Review) - a cause for rejoicing. But Blacklist is something special.
This
is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four
generations - secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them
with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the
spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old
client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises
an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond.
Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a
lifeless human hand.
It is the body of a reporter who had been
investigating events of forty-five years earlier, during the McCarthy
era, and V. I.'s discovery quickly sucks her into the history of two
great Chicago families - their fortunes intertwined by blood, sex,
money, and the scandals that may or may not have resulted in murder all
these years later. At the same time, she inadvertently becomes involved
in the story of a missing Egyptian boy whose possible terrorist
connections make him very much sought after by the government. As the
two cases drive her forward-and then shockingly tumble together,
pushing her into situations more perilous than she could have
imagined-she finds that wealth and privilege, too, bear a terrible
price; and the past has no monopoly on patriotic scoundrels. Before
everything is over, at least two more people will lie dead...and V.I.
might even be one of them.
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