Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits
himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible
murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.
Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator,
Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell
or a grave, depending on who finds him first. In his final days as a
free man, he hires Isaiah Coleridge to tie up a loose end: the
suspicious death of his nephew four years earlier. At the time police
declared it an accident, and Adeyemi isn't sure it wasn't, but one final
look may bring his sister peace.
So it is that Coleridge and his investigative partner, Lionel Robard,
find themselves in the upper reaches of New York State, in a tiny town
that is home to outsized secrets and an unnerving cabal of locals who
are protecting them. At the epicenter of it all is the site of a stalled
supercollider project, an immense subterranean construction that may
have an even deeper, more insidious purpose. . . .