Taking on his fifth case, ex-boxer Leonid McGill, the New York private eye Mosley introduced in The Long Fall, may find anything a welcome distraction from worry over his wife’s recovery from a suicide attempt, his father’s whereabouts, and his son’s waywardness—not to mention the fading ardor of a little affair he’s been having. But locating a missing heiress escalates into a murder investigation when the man who hired McGill is killed, leaving the P.I. at the mercy of an old money family that’s out for blood.
