Blacklist

Publisher Marketing: Blacklist is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V. I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a lifeless human hand. It is the body of a reporter who had been investigating events of forty-five years earlier, during the McCarthy era, and V. I. s discovery quickly sucks her into the history of two great Chicago families their fortunes intertwined by blood, sex, money, and the scandals that may or may not have resulted in murder all these years later. At the same time, she inadvertently becomes involved in the story of a missing Egyptian boy whose possible terrorist connections make him very much sought after by the government. As the two cases drive her forward and then shockingly tumble together, pushing her into situations more perilous than she could have imagined she finds that wealth and privilege, too, bear a terrible price; and the past has no monopoly on patriotic scoundrels. Before everything is over, at least two more people will lie dead...and V. I. might even be one of them." Review Citations: Booksense '76 September 2004 09/01/2004 pg. 1 (EAN 9780451209696, Mass Market Paperbound) Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 44 (EAN 9781587888670, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2003 pg. 92 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2003 pg. 941 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2003 pg. 1927 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 09/01/2003 pg. 210 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 09/15/2003 pg. 48 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Bookpage 10/01/2003 pg. 10 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2003 11/01/2003 pg. 1 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) New York Times 10/19/2003 pg. 25 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) People Weekly 12/15/2003 pg. 52 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Romantic Times 10/01/2003 pg. 85 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2003 pg. 48 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Booksense '76 October 2004 10/01/2004 pg. 1 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2003 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Library Journal 08/01/2003 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 718 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 685 (EAN 9780399150852, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Paretsky, Sara Sara Paretsky is the author of fourteen previous books, including twelve V. I. Warshawski novels. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers Association. She lives in Chicago. Contributor Bio:  Burr, Sandra Burr is a freelance voiceover talent.