In the latest installment in Michael Harveyrsquos beloved Michael Kelly series Chicagorsquos favorite Ovid-reading gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinoisrsquos first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and evil begins Itrsquos been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison on corruption charges PI Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous e-mail offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry no questions asked Kellyrsquos investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behindmdashhis wife Marie Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is Like everyone else Kelly doesnrsquot believe her As he hunts for her husband Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perryrsquos past What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband with her own deeply complicatedreasons for standing by himEveryone in Chicago has secrets including the governorrsquos wife Some of them she shared with her husband Some of them she kept to herself And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed The Governorrsquos Wifeis a hard-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the personal at the perils of trusting even those closest to us and the collateral damage of our highest aspirations Stylish knock-out suspense from a modern master.
