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Chicago politics-past, present, and future-takecenter stage in New York Times-bestselling authorSara 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 missingfor four decades, a search that she figured would be futilebecomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially chargedhistory, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and thoseof the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up to brush her backfrom the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she'snever met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign;a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dieswithout revealing crucial evidence; and on the city's South Side,people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adoredfather might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigationall the way to its frightening end.
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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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- Title Hardball
- Author Sara Paretsky
- Series V.I. Warshawski Novels
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 446
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnam Adult, New York
- Publication date 2009-09-22
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780399155932 / 0399155937
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.46 x 1.45 in (23.16 x 16.41 x 3.68 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Women private investigators
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009020700
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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