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V. I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V. I. takes over coaching duties of the girlsâ basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
Through young Josie Dorrado, V. I. meets the girlâs mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesnât know how sheâll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down.
The elder Dorradoâs fears are realized when the plant explodes; V. I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V. I. begins to investigate, she finds herself confronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William âBuffalo Billâ Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, âYoung Mr. William,â is close to sixty and furious that his father doesnât cede more power to him. And then, thereâs âBilly the Kid,â Young Mr. Williamâs nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole.
When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V. I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.
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About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
About: Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.
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