Calumet City
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Touchstone; Simon & Schuster
Published: March 4, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781416533221
Subjects: Thrillers; Fiction / Thrillers; Fiction; Fiction - Espionage / Thriller; Chicago (Ill.); Mystery fiction; Police
Description: Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated exterior -- solitary, stoic, loveless -- belies the wrenching legacy of her orphan childhood. Haunted by the horrifying abuse she suffered at the hands of her foster parents, Patti Black sublimates past torments into a meticulously maintained tough-gal persona. When a series of unrelated cases -- a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of a state attorney, the exhumation of a long-concealed body from a tenement basement wall -- all point in Patti Black's direction, she finds herself facing the dark truth: You can't hide from your history, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Black, that history didn't die in the tenement wall; it's alive -- and riding her down.