COMING JUNE 1

Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in violent rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint—violent, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left.

COMING JUNE 1

Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in violent rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint—violent, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left.

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Award Nominations

Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
UK Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller
International Thriller Writers Association Thriller Award
Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
American Library Association Best Crime Novel Debut
Winner of American Book Fest’s International Book Award (for Thriller/Adventure)