Mick Mulligan was fired from his job as a Disney animator when he refused to name names to the FBI. Now that his wife has left him and taken their toddler daughter, he\u2019s hung out his shingle as a private eye. When Duke Rogowski, president of the United Taxi and Limousine Drivers, asks Mick to reopen the case of Harold Williams, a Black communist on death row for shooting his boss, cab company owner Irwin Johnson, Mick\u2019s intrigued by the call. But he has questions of his own. What possible leads can there be that the police haven\u2019t already investigated? Why did Duke wait a year after Williams\u2019 conviction to make this move, only two weeks before his scheduled execution? And how can Mick tack between the wishes of Duke\u2019s two vice presidents, self-identified communist Sol Rosen, who\u2019s eager to see Williams exonerated, and mob boss Vincent Forlini, who\u2019s firmly opposed to troubling the waters? The more deeply involved Mick gets with the richly detailed cast of interested parties\u2014rabid anti-communists, communists and socialist organizers of every stripe, FBI informers, and three beautiful women: Duke\u2019s wife, Cynthia; Johnson\u2019s widow, Eva; and Elena DeMarco, the sister of Williams\u2019 co-worker and friend\u2014the more he realizes that the conflicts that led to Johnson\u2019s murder are a lot more complicated than J. Edgar Hoover evidently assumes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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