This is a complicated and twisty mystery involving two of this author’s most interesting characters, Myron Bolitar and Win Lockwood III. As the story starts, the reader is in the mind of a killer taking aim on their victim. And then the next scene is when FBI agents are asking Bolitar where his friend, well-known basketball coach Greg Downing, is. Bolitar is dumbfounded at the question because he’d given the eulogy at Downing’s funeral several years previously.
But even as he denies any knowledge of Downing’s whereabouts, other than the cemetery, Bolitar’s mind is grappling with the question of how Downing’s DNA could have been found at a recent murder scene. And Downing and Bolitar have a complicated history. Bolitar’s pro basketball career had been derailed by Downing, Bolitar had dated the same woman Downing later married, and Bolitar was actually the biological father of Downing’s son Jeremy.
While Myron’s own investigation is barely ahead of that of the FBI, he is finally able to track down Greg who’d gone off the grid and then faked his death. But the investigation also puts Bolitar in the crosshairs of a meticulous serial killer and it is unclear whether or not he’ll survive.
This was a thrilling story, very difficult to put down, and I was surprised when the killer was finally revealed.
