Code of Vengeance

The murder of Boston's most beloved politician, Councillor Philip Stewart, is nothing less than an abomination. While the police struggle to solve a crime with no witnesses, no clues, and no apparent motive, the Boston Post dispatches crack investigative reporter Frank Cronin to chronicle the slaughter of a modern saint.

But at every turn, Cronin finds only more damning evidence that behind the hallowed public persona of Philip Stewart lay a dark heart of greed and corruption. As his shattering revelations draw fire from Boston's most powerful figures, Cronin vows to expose the whole truth. And as likely suspects multiply, a shocking tale of evil and retribution unfolds. . . .

Charles Kenney was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for fifteen years. He lives in Boston with his family and is at work on another novel.