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Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces---greed and corruption, ambition and desire---run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.

A power struggle---between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful