Hardball

Resumen del libro

When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who has been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the cityas racially charged history, as well as haunting family secretsaher own and those of the elderly sisters who hired herarise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom sheas 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 cityas 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.