Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies & tells V.I. Warshawski hes the prominent banker John Thayer looking for his sons missing girlfriend. But V.I. soon discovers the real John Thayers son
- & hes dead. As V.I. begins to question her mysterious clients motives she sinks deeper into Chicagos darker side: a world of gangsters insurance fraud & contract killings. & while she must concentrate on saving the life of someone she has never met it becomes clear that she is in danger of losing her own.