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Book Release Party for Sara Paretsky's Hardball
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Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
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Hardball
(V.I. Warshawski Novels (Hardcover))(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Paretsky, Sara
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.95
Published: Putnam Adult, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage in "New York Times"-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.
Chicago's unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.
When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she's never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the city's South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
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