No boundaries. No limits. No turning back.
His boots are frozen. His hands are covered with sin: the blood and sweat of a trashed motel room where a wealthy Chicago doctor has been on a binge of sex, sadism, and drugs. Harding is just doing his job, an unlicensed PI running surveillance on a cheating husband. At stake is a woman's divorce settlement, two million dollars in a Swiss bank account, and some harrowing videotape. But for Harding, a simple domestic case is about to explode into the Chicago night.
Suddenly, the investigation into Elenya Rosenberg's depraved doctor husband is leading Harding to places he can't afford to go-and to a bizarre killer with a taste for body-piercing and ancient Greek philosophy. And as Harding gets closer to the sordid truth about the Rosenbergs, he collides with a violent chapter of his own past-when Harding made a choice, a bad man went free, and a good man went too far, but also not far enough. . .
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Wessel's first novel introduces Harding, a Chicago private investigator who has lost his license to operate and must depend on slick operators to throw work his way, but who nevertheless maintains a cool, wisecracking style. Harding's charming quirks include a devotion to horror movies and a weakness for women who sing sad, soulful songs. Hired to check out a plastic surgeon with shady finances and kinky vices, Harding is assisted by a photographer and a computer whiz in this original debut.
"A perfectly executed mystery."
--People
"Excellent...Wessel's prose is taut and vivid."
--Houston Chronicle
"Gripping...a twisting, turning saga of murder and lust."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"The best debut thriller out this year!"
--Rocky Mountain News
"Chalk one up for the new guy on the block."
--The New York Times Book Review
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