With the help of Julie’s kid sister Katy and his omnicompetent sidekick Squares, an ex-Nazi turned franchise fitness guru, Will goes in search of the truth about Ken and Sheila, ignoring Pistillo’s threats of legal action and the even more dire threats of Ken’s murderously well-connected school buddies John Asselta, the Ghost (ex-wrestler), and Philip McGuane (ex–student council president) in an attempt to stand on his own two feet after years of hiding behind his big brother’s strength. And there’s even worse news: Joseph Pistillo, the FBI’s top man in New York, is not only still looking for Ken, whom he turns out to have a damningly personal reason for wanting to find he suspects Sheila, who never told Will anything about her turbulent past except that she’d run away from home, was up to no good as well. Then, several hours after her funeral, Will suffers an even more devastating loss when his lover Sheila Rogers, a volunteer at Covenant House, the New York shelter for street kids Will runs, disappears as well. A betwixt-and-between thriller from the talented chronicler of sports agent Myron Bolitar ( Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).Įleven years after his brother Ken vanished after being accused of raping and strangling neighborhood girl Julie Miller, Will Klein’s dying mother tells him that Ken’s still alive.
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