**A TURNING POINT FOR THE STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS!** After the catastrophic events of *Wildfire,* the S.C.E. crew of the U.S.S. *da Vinci* is in disarray. Half of the ship's complement were killed at Galvan VI, and the survivors must put their lives back together. Corsi, accompanied by Stevens
Breakdown
โ Scribed by Sara Paretsky
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;Brilliance Audio
- Year
- 2011;โ2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 110155407X
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โฆ Synopsis
When a group of Chicago tweens holds a ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpsestabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. V.I. Warshawski arrives on the scene to escort the girls homebut protecting them places her at the tangled center of the investigation. And the girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate. For V.I., the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Durangoor to Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles to find an answer, she finds herself fighting enemies who are no less terrifying for being all too human.
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