This is the complicated story of Mickey Gibson, ex New Jersey detective and single mother of two small children, and her search for the ill-gotten treasure amassed by a former accountant for the Mob.
Mickey works from home for a global investigation company tracking down wealthy people who have hidden their fortunes in order to avoid paying their debts. She gets tricked into investigating one Daniel Pottinger/Harry Langhorne and finds herself in a world of intrigue and danger.
Equal billing in this story goes to a mysterious woman going by the name of Clarisse. Clarisse has involved Mickey in her dangerous treasure hunt and Mickey has no inkling of why Clarisse has chosen her.
Mickey teams up, loosely, with Detective Wilson Sullivan, and they have to reach conclusions, separately and together, about who killed the man in the old mansion, and why. The story that unfolds is one of greed, cruelty and careless disregard for other human beings, even children.
This book requires concentration on things like the names, both given and assumed, of various characters; on the acceptance that there are some horrible people in the world; and an understanding, to a certain extent, of things like bitcoin (which my brain could not process, I’m sorry).
It was a very good read, and David Baldacci is an enduring, brilliant story teller.
Published by Macmillan
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