by Chris Mooney
First published 2013
Special Investigator Darby McCormick receives an urgent call about a missing teenage boy. The case seems routine until she discovers the boy was under the care of a man whose fingerprints identify him as Frank Sullivan, a notorious gangster the FBI supposedly killed twenty years ago. McCormick finds herself pulled into a web of deception that spans decades. How can a dead man be caring for children? What happened during that FBI operation two decades earlier? As McCormick digs deeper, the investigation consumes her thoughts and threatens to upend everything she believed about justice and truth. The missing boy becomes the key to unlocking a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of law enforcement. McCormick must navigate between official channels and her own instincts to find the teenager before it's too late. The case forces her to confront the possibility that the system she serves may have been built on lies.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigation, unreliable-narrator
Period: 20 years ago, present day
464 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books Ltd