Hits a grand slam for its intended audience. It might even convince
skeptics that superhero stories can make good literature.
*--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
*An extraordinary novel. --Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author
of Station Eleven
30 years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again
under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel
from award-winning debut author T.J. Martinson
Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The
hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen,
unless the police will admit that they faked the death of the legendary
superhero called the Kingfisher and helped him to give up his defense of
the city thirty years ago.
Retired reporter Marcus Waters made his name as a journalist covering
the enigmatic superhero's five years of cleaning up Chicago's streets.
Then the Kingfisher died, Chicago resumed its violent turmoil, and
Marcus slid back into obscurity.
But did the Kingfisher really die? And who would take hostages connected
to the Kingfisher's past attempts to clean up the streets? With the help
of disgraced police officer Lucinda Tillman and a young hacktivist named
Wren, Marcus will explore the city's violence, corruption, and chaos to
figure out if the vigilante hero died tragically, or gave up hope and
abandoned the city--and for the hostages, the clock is ticking.
