Kennedy owns Albany like no other writer owns any other city, having constructed a city that surpasses the reality. Roscoe Conway is a lawyer for the Democratic Party Machine that runs Albany, an insider that stands just outside the circles of true wealth and power. Elisha Fitzgibbons, the money behind the party, former lieutenant governor of the state and married to the woman Roscoe really loves, kills himself, setting in motion a mystery that only his right-hand man, Roscoe, can solve.
With other Kennedy novels, the dead are too near us, giving Roscoe hints and faint suggestions. Moving quickly from past to present, Roscoe finds his present and his future tied too deeply to this past, and in the end, sacrifices himself for love, for the party, and for the city.
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