Book 2008
The Evil That Men Do
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- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Brothers and sisters
- Ex-police officers
- Fiction
- Aging parents
- Suspense
- Alzheimer's disease
Even generations later, you can't escape. . .the evil that men do.Stripped of his private investigator's license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he's finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn't seen in years shows up, needing help. Turns out Donne's Alzheimer's-stricken mother has begun hinting at long-buried family secrets from her hospital bed, suggesting a sinister--even murderous--past. Meanwhile, Donne's relatives are suddenly being greeted by blackmail, car bombs, and bullets to the back of the skull. All Donne wants is to disappear--preferably into a nice frosty pint glass--but he soon realizes that his only chance at saving his family, and himself, is by solving a mystery more than sixty years old. Now he needs to figure out how a hit man, crooked cops, corrupt politics, a kidnapping, and the city of Bayonne all fit together. He'll discover that old family secrets still have the power to kill in this razor-sharp PI story that makes classic noir new again.From the Trade Paperback edition.