I had read this, years ago, when it first came out and I had first started reading Lawson. I re-read The First Ring a couple of months ago, and then started listening to this in its downloadable form, in December. The reader did a credible job, and the story was even more interesting than I recalled. Joe Demarco, Emma, and Demarco's boss, Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, are all back again. The Speaker wants Joe to look into a contractor at a submarine yard. It's not something Joe would normally do, but there's a nephew of a Cabinet Secretary involved, and the Speaker is doing this as a favor. Joe enlists Emma's help and something that looks like mundane corruption is quickly exposed as something deeper, darker, and life-threatening. Joe and Emma take quite a beating as this interesting and well-written story progresses. I had forgotten how good this was.
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