Boston A city on edge On street corners newsboys hawk the shocking headline KENNEDY IS DEAD In the citys underworld a mob war rages But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city the Boston Strangler This is the electrifying backdrop of William Landays magnificent new novel a story of one Irish-American family a city under siege and the long shadow cast by the most infamous killer of his day For the three Daley brothers sons of a Boston cop crime is the family business They are simply on different sides of it Joe is the eldest a tough-talking cop whose gambling habitsfast women slow horsesdrag him down into the citys gangland Michael is the middle son a Harvard-educated lawyer working for an ambitious attorney general he finds himself assigned to the embattled Strangler task force And Ricky the devil-may-care youngest son floats above the fray as an expert burglaruntil the Strangler strikes too close to homeAs Joes mob debts close in around him and Michael becomes snarled in a murder investigation gone very wrong and Ricky is hunted by both sides of the law the three brothersand the women who love themare forced to take sides Now each must look deeper into a killers murderous rage into their familys own lethal secrets and into the one death that has changed them forever As William Landays complex compassionate and terrifying novel builds to a climax two mysteries will collideand a shattering truth will be revealedFrom the Hardcover edition.
