It seems that Congressman Lundatos, who has spent the last year bucking a million ethics charges, wants to have a go at local office - this time with Jimmy Flannery as his running mate. Jimmy has a knack for finding things out, and that could be very useful to the Lion. For Jimmy, it's a shot at becoming alderman of the Fifth, the mayor's ward, and wielding more power than he has ever known. That is, if he wants to hitch up with the likes of Lundatos. Jimmy is mulling over the offer when an anonymous phone call urges him to go to a certain posh apartment in the glamorous Bridgeport district. Here, he's told, is the information he needs to make up his mind. What he finds is a very beautiful, very dead, very naked woman in a tub filled with six inches of water ... and not a drop of blood.
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This review is from: The Lion's Share (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the 1st book by Robert Campbell I have ever read and I am hooked! This book is a swift moving book about politics and a murder in Chicago. The Irish-Americans are the most popular characters. You can read this book in about one or two days. And read it again, and again, and again......
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4 and a half stars, really -- more like a novel than a mystery,
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This is the second Jimmy Flannery that I've read. I lived for many years in Chicago and love the Chicago setting, although Jimmy Flannery is Southside and Irish, and that's a whole different world from lakefront liberal wasp. This is one of the later books in the series -- Jimmy has climbed the political ladder and is now in a position to consider running for Alderman (an important position in Chicago politics). His "Chinaman," the man who has helped him along the way, dies at the beginning of this book, and he kind of inherits the man's kingdom, both physical and political. He ends up dealing with a problem involving a middle-aged hooker and competing circles of prostitution.
Jimmy struggles to be honest and good in a system that makes that difficult. He knows there's a line somewhere in all that grey that he doesn't want to cross, but where is it? And what's going on, exactly? In the political circles in which he moves, it can be difficult to figure out exactly what's going on. There's a woman found dead, and Jimmy gets called to the scene. Was it an accident or murder, and if it was murder, who did it? And who is it that is trying to get him involved? A lot of this book is about Chicago and Chicago politics, about a political system that remembers what it was like under the old Mayor Daley but knows that things are changing, particularly as politicians find themselves under indictment for doing things that were considered perfectly acceptable in the past (and were in fact legal then). I intend to read more in the series. But if you're looking for a fast-paced thriller, this isn't the book for you. It's atmospheric and thoughtful, a kind of political noir novel (think of the movie Chinatown here, and move it to Chicago).
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