{"product_id":"9780399155932","title":"Hardball - Paretsky, Sara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eHardball\u003c\/u\u003e by Paretsky, Sara\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago politics past, present, and future take center stage in New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky s brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\nChicago s unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.\n\n\n\n When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city s racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she s never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the city s South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009","offers":[{"title":"Hardball \/ Very Good","offer_id":52634170851620,"sku":"9780399155932VG","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_0103ccd4-448e-4f2f-bf76-516c22084bec.jpg?v=1781792454","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780399155932","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}